San Jose, CA, USA
High altitude light with plume changes direction and is viewed for 10 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 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 Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10+ minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-jose-ca-2015-bd9ac3
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
5 reports came out of San Jose, CA in November 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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