UFOMYST
CaseChanging2005

Phelan, CA, USA

Large object that consisted of a configuration (in a row) of very large orange lights in High Desert.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-05
Where
Phelan, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
34.426, -117.572 · exact
Slug
changing-over-phelan-ca-2005-33260a
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

  • Phelan, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% 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.