Burbank, CA, USA
From my second story balcony I witnessed a large metallic sphere appear over the horizon. It did appear to look shiny, but it was in a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-06
- Where
- Burbank, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.181, -118.309 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-burbank-ca-2020-d60fe9
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
- Burbank, CA has 100 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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