CaseChanging2015
Salinas, CA, USA
UFOs use eclipse and clouds to their advantage.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-04
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-salinas-ca-2015-4b93a6
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 51 documented reports from Salinas, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.