Elk Grove, CA, USA
Silent bright object sending out luminous beams and mist in 's' and hourglass shapes.((NUFORC Note: U. S. Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 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
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-elk-grove-ca-2015-e66186
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
- This is one of 46 reports logged in Elk Grove, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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