UFOMYST
CaseChanging2006

San Jose, CA, USA

I have been seeing this star like light for over two years from my kithchen window. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (83 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
2006-08-16
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1:00 TILL 4:00 AM
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
changing-over-san-jose-ca-2006-1960a3
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 277 documented reports from San Jose, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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