UFOMYST
CaseChanging2011

Walnut Creek, CA, USA

2 bright orange lights flying in formation, switching positions, flew apart, straight up then disappeared in the blink of the eye

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-05-08
Where
Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 min approx
Geo
37.906, -122.065 · exact
Slug
changing-over-walnut-creek-ca-2011-4f08d9
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…

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In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from Walnut Creek, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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