Shaver Lake, CA, USA
I didnt see it with my eye? Only in picture! I have seen lights in this area before, while fishing. ((NUFORC Note: Bird?? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-02-09
- Where
- Shaver Lake, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.104, -119.318 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-shaver-lake-ca-2018-a79dbb
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 7 reports logged in Shaver Lake, CA.
- This case is one of 331 California reports filed in 2018.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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