UFOMYST
CaseChanging2016

Alpaugh, CA, USA

I took pics . it changed from a round shape with many points to a round gas like appearance. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
Alpaugh, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
35.888, -119.487 · exact
Slug
changing-over-alpaugh-ca-2016-b7c32d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Alpaugh, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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