Running Springs, CA, USA
Flying object that changed shape and color over San Bernardino Mountains CA
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-03-10
- Where
- Running Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 34.208, -117.109 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-running-springs-ca-2011-120169
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
- Running Springs, CA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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