CaseOval2008

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
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…

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 days

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