CaseLight2015

San Diego, CA, USA

Saw a spotlight type of light that rotated towards us then expanded outwards. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-11-07
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-diego-ca-2015-5d5308
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2015

    CA flap 2015-11

    CA, USA

    19 sightings in geohash 9mud (CA) during 2015 peak months 11–11; top shape light

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 11 San Diego, CA reports filed in November 2015.

Flap

CA flap 2015-11

This report belongs to the CA flap 2015-11 — 19 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
  • 814 reports came from California in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

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