CaseEgg2012

Monterey, CA, USA

Metallic egg-shaped object over the ocean

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-16
Where
Monterey, CA, USA
Shape
Egg
Duration
unknown
Geo
36.600, -121.895 · exact
Slug
egg-over-monterey-ca-2012-2fb9d6
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

  • Monterey, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

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.