CaseChanging2008
Davis, CA, USA
light with tail doing serpentine manuever over I-80 in Davis
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-25
- Where
- Davis, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minutes?
- Geo
- 38.545, -121.741 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-davis-ca-2008-158fc5
Wave
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
- Davis, CA has 36 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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