UFOMYST
CaseChanging2012

Eureka, CA, USA

Uunusual orange bright light over eureka, california

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-13
Where
Eureka, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.802, -124.164 · exact
Slug
changing-over-eureka-ca-2012-338d47
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…

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In context

  • Eureka, CA has 42 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

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.