UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

Carmel, CA, USA

Cylinder/oval emitting light, should have been back lit by sun, later simply disappeared

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-28
Where
Carmel, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.978, -86.118 · fallback
Slug
oval-over-carmel-ca-2012-42b41e
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 7 documented reports from Carmel, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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