CaseChanging2002

Modesto, CA, USA

rectangular light changed colors to half circle as well as shape in eastern sky from northern California

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: 960s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2002-07-14
Where
Modesto, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
16 minutes
Geo
37.639, -120.997 · exact
Slug
changing-over-modesto-ca-2002-01915b

In context

  • Modesto, CA shows up 114 times across the archive.
  • 430 reports came from California in 2002.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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