CaseUnknown2006

San Bruno, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) thin rocket shaped, flying apparition,smoke cloud colored,fast ,no lights was i could tell it wasnt a meteor

Report quality: Low15/100

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 (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2006-07-23
Where
San Bruno, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
seconds
Geo
37.630, -122.411 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-san-bruno-ca-2006-07a033
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

  • San Bruno, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 561 reports came from California in 2006.

Report

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