CaseSphere2011
Bellevue, NE, USA
orange and yellow sphere
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-11
- Where
- Bellevue, NE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 41.137, -95.891 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bellevue-ne-2011-2171b1
Wave
Part of a wave
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 21 reports logged in Bellevue, NE.
- This case is one of 27 Nebraska reports filed in 2011.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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