El Cajon, CA, USA
July 4th fireworks display takes a back seat to piercing red lights in the San Diego sky...
Report quality: High77/100
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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-04
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20-25 Minutes
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-cajon-ca-2004-5faa3b
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…
Local cluster
July 2004 was a busy month for El Cajon, CA: 8 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 87 reports logged in El Cajon, CA.
- This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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