San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
a star that turned 10 times its size, got dim again, and then black, over and over , moving by perfumo canyon
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-19
- Where
- San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 6 minutes
- Geo
- 35.283, -120.660 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-san-luis-obispo-ca-2008-07e3a9
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
- San Luis Obispo, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.