CaseChanging1980
Costa Mesa, CA, USA
Pulsing, mercury in appearance, spinning on an axis. Looked as if maybe living or organic in nature.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-04-01
- Where
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.641, -117.919 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-costa-mesa-ca-1980-158818
In context
- Costa Mesa, CA has 35 sightings on file here.
- 1980 brought 36 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.