Roseville, CA, USA
3-15 lights with iridescent (rainbow-colored) tails coiling and whipping from glowing center into 'symbol' like shapes.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-27
- Where
- Roseville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 38.752, -121.288 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-roseville-ca-2016-34cbff
Part of a wave
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
- One of 67 documented reports from Roseville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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