CaseSphere2019

Akron, CO, USA

The crew of an airliner at 34,000' witnesses a metallic sphere streak by their aircraft; reported to FAA ARTCC.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-06-30
Where
Akron, CO, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Seconds
Geo
40.161, -103.214 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-akron-co-2019-f37f45
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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Akron, CO.
  • This case is one of 130 Colorado reports filed in 2019.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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