UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

San Mateo, CA, USA

Light in the sky flashing 11 seconds as if rotating about the craft the same way a lighthouse does. object/light high in the sky moving

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-09
Where
San Mateo, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 Minutes
Geo
37.563, -122.326 · exact
Slug
light-over-san-mateo-ca-2012-ebea9c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from San Mateo, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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