UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Cardiff, CA, USA

There were 3 glowing objects in the sky bouncing around for about 3 hours.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-10
Where
Cardiff, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 hours
Geo
33.646, -86.934 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-cardiff-ca-2020-4e4e0c
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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In context

  • Cardiff, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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