UFOMYST
CaseChanging2013

Turlock, CA, USA

Golden-orange bright star fell from the sky & changed into flat black floppy object, landed in tree then flew away.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-25
Where
Turlock, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.495, -120.847 · exact
Slug
changing-over-turlock-ca-2013-78c3ed
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…

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In context

  • Turlock, CA shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 728 reports came from California in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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