CaseOval2010

Lake Elsinore, CA, USA

Two clusters of oval, metallic-sided objects were seen flying high above Lake Elsinore. ((NUFORC Note: Wife's report. PD))

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-06-06
Where
Lake Elsinore, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 min
Geo
33.668, -117.327 · exact
Slug
oval-over-lake-elsinore-ca-2010-b2dfbe
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

  • Lake Elsinore, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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