CaseChanging2021

Carlsbad, CA, USA

We were playing tennis at the Omni La Costa resort. 8 women. It was very overcast. Foggy. All of a sudden a pulsating shape appeared ou

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-08-06
Where
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 min
Geo
33.158, -117.351 · exact
Slug
changing-over-carlsbad-ca-2021-208beb
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

  • This is one of 62 reports logged in Carlsbad, CA.
  • This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
  • Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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