CaseChanging2018

Redding, CA, USA

Huge Multi-light array, pulsating lights, honeycomb array somewhat egg shapped. Looks like a bright star, ((NUFORC Note: Star? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 36000s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-12-07
Where
Redding, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 hours
Geo
40.587, -122.392 · exact
Slug
changing-over-redding-ca-2018-c21316
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

  • Redding, CA has 103 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 331 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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