CaseChanging2012

Dana Point, CA, USA

Large erratically moving object over Dana Point, CA

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-14
Where
Dana Point, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
33.467, -117.698 · exact
Slug
changing-over-dana-point-ca-2012-98e0e8
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

  • One of 25 documented reports from Dana Point, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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