CaseChanging2014

Salinas, CA, USA

Large egg-like craft with bight lights observed for 2 hours at a time by 2-4 people for 7 days in a row!

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-02-13
Where
Salinas, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 hours
Geo
36.678, -121.656 · exact
Slug
changing-over-salinas-ca-2014-b8b592
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

  • Salinas, CA has 51 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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