CaseOther2015

San Jose, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) Massive spaceship spotted above San Jose....

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2015-03-12
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
other-over-san-jose-ca-2015-bc6e6f
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of San Jose, CA in March 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 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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