UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Irvine, CA, USA

Bright shiny object-looked like a shiny fish in water-but changed shape quickly, then vanished

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-31
Where
Irvine, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
8-10 seconds
Geo
33.669, -117.823 · exact
Slug
changing-over-irvine-ca-2013-d96dbe
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 85 documented reports from Irvine, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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