CaseChanging2009
El Cajon, CA, USA
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Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (9 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-01
- Where
- El Cajon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 32.795, -116.963 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-el-cajon-ca-2009-ab3b7f
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
- El Cajon, CA has 87 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 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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