UFOMYST
CaseChanging2008

Half Moon Bay, CA, USA

Orange lights and triangles over field south of Half Moon Bay.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-17
Where
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 hours
Geo
37.464, -122.429 · exact
Slug
changing-over-half-moon-bay-ca-2008-47e893
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…

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In context

  • Half Moon Bay, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 709 reports came from California in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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