Oceanside, CA, USA
Driving down the interstate going Northbound on I-5 and noticed one object in the sky with a red flashing strobe flying abnormally low
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-08
- Where
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.196, -117.379 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oceanside-ca-2020-ad3025
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
- One of 53 documented reports from Oceanside, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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