San Francisco, CA, USA
What looked like a star high in the sky over San Francisco slowly moved then stopped then faded away
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-20
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 mins
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-francisco-ca-2009-1f2796
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 241 documented reports from San Francisco, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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