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
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
- 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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