CaseChanging2012
Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
Extremely bright sphere over Canyon Lake, Canyon Hills area
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-19
- Where
- Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.668, -117.327 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-lake-elsinore-ca-2012-275ea2
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
- One of 37 documented reports from Lake Elsinore, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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