UFOMYST
CaseChanging2010

Malibu, CA, USA

Fire colored cylinder changing shape to circle

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-16
Where
Malibu, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
34.026, -118.780 · exact
Slug
changing-over-malibu-ca-2010-824d39
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

  • Malibu, CA has 28 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 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.