CaseSphere2014
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
Bright orange circular orb.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Half Moon Bay, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 0-5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.464, -122.429 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-half-moon-bay-ca-2014-5f8a37
Wave
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
- Half Moon Bay, CA has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 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.