UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2016

San Jose, CA, USA

Bright greenish orb with reddish tail fell at 45 degree angle over West San Jose.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-01
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-san-jose-ca-2016-7a7e1d
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

San Jose, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2016.

In context

  • One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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