Chula Vista, CA, USA
Slow Moving, Oval shaped, very low in the sky, and a very bright white,and it vanished… ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD))
Report quality: Low39/100
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
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-08-07
- Where
- Chula Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1:40
- Geo
- 32.640, -117.084 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-chula-vista-ca-2008-10d004
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
- Chula Vista, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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