UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

Sacramento, CA, USA

Glowing white cloud-like object sighted at night, dissipates into red haze and vanishes entirely.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-28
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
~10-15 (or 20 seconds?)
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
changing-over-sacramento-ca-2017-3aba51
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

  • Sacramento, CA shows up 304 times across the archive.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate 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.