Cayucos, CA, USA
It was a large, round, glowing object, the flew silently, & then stopped, changed direction, to go into light speed in a second.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-12-30
- Where
- Cayucos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 8 to 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.443, -120.892 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cayucos-ca-2010-0fa111
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
- Cayucos, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.