Concord, CA, USA
Ball shaped object with green glow in sky near full moon. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares, caused by photographing the Moon. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-01-23
- Where
- Concord, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.978, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-concord-ca-2016-b0a052
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
- Concord, CA has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.