CaseSphere2018

Chipley, FL, USA

Sphere changing shape and color greens blues reds white diamond to sphere shaped this marks (3) times seeing this object in the past

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-19
Where
Chipley, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
00:30:00
Geo
30.782, -85.539 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-chipley-fl-2018-702583
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

  • Chipley, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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