UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

San Diego, CA, USA

Single white light or craft passed over and very close to a commercial jet. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the ISS? PD))

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 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
2012-10-10
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-diego-ca-2012-eb6c65
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of San Diego, CA in October 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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