CaseFormation2009
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Formation of lights over south san francisco and L.A
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-09
- Where
- South San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 37.655, -122.408 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-south-san-francisco-ca-2009-633fa3
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- South San Francisco, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.