San Clemente, CA, USA
Single black irregular shaped object rough red edges moving extremely slowly westward at about 1000 feet. Visible for about 4 minutes
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-27
- Where
- San Clemente, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 33.427, -117.612 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-clemente-ca-2004-82361c
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 39 documented reports from San Clemente, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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