CaseChanging2005

Visalia, CA, USA

White orb enveloped by red colored halo, splits into smaller red fragments, while weaving and dropping.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-21
Where
Visalia, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
(5) Minutes
Geo
36.330, -119.292 · exact
Slug
changing-over-visalia-ca-2005-3cb321
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…

In context

  • Visalia, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
  • 539 reports came from California in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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