CaseChanging1999

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

One large white orange to gold roundish, Looked like incoming meteor at first then slowed and did a slow complete circle up and around

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1999-04-28
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2min
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
changing-over-santa-cruz-ca-1999-36d0de
Local cluster

Local cluster

April 1999 was a busy month for Santa Cruz, CA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 76 reports logged in Santa Cruz, CA.
  • This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
  • Changing craft made up 1.9% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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