San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Took place in under a second, drone-like, traveling potentially 100-300 mph, extremely bright, covered in lights.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-26
- Where
- San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- <1 second
- Geo
- 35.283, -120.660 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-luis-obispo-ca-2021-7d51d4
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 Luis Obispo, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 330 reports came from California in 2021.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.