CaseChanging2012
Oroville, CA, USA
Sighting in Norcal video footage scary!
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 21600s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-02-13
- Where
- Oroville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 6+ hrs
- Geo
- 39.514, -121.558 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-oroville-ca-2012-d962f1
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
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Oroville, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.