San Francisco, CA, USA
White orb turned pink, then red, then faded out as it moved across the 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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-16
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-francisco-ca-2009-25d8b8
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 San Francisco, CA reports filed in January 2009.
In context
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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