UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2012

Porterville, CA, USA

Maybe an Alien???

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-01-09
Where
Porterville, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
—
Geo
36.065, -119.017 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-porterville-ca-2012-98e832
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Porterville, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of January 2012.

In context

  • One of 36 documented reports from Porterville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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