CaseSphere2005

Bellingham, WA, USA

Bright reflective sphere high in the sky on a sunny day

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-10
Where
Bellingham, WA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
48.760, -122.488 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bellingham-wa-2005-035a93
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

  • One of 136 documented reports from Bellingham, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 192 sightings in 2005.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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