San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
Two bright amber lights hovering, separating, rejoining, then leaving in different directions silently.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-08
- Where
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- About 20-30 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- rectangle-over-san-francisco-bay-area-ca-2004-1471b8
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
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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