San Diego, CA, USA
Ball/orb of light dripping "liquid fire" pulses and then streaks of into night sky
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-13
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-12 seconds
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-diego-ca-2014-9b459e
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
May 2014 was a busy month for San Diego, CA: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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