UFOMYST
CaseChanging2008

Cardiff, CA, USA

Very bright, stationary bright object, cycling thru reds, blues, greens and white. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-02-27
Where
Cardiff, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 minutes +
Geo
33.646, -86.934 · fallback
Slug
changing-over-cardiff-ca-2008-513709
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

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In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Cardiff, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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