UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Hayward, CA, USA

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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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (21 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-12
Where
Hayward, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45 Minutes
Geo
37.669, -122.081 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-hayward-ca-2004-e9d932
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Hayward, CA shows up 71 times across the archive.
  • 568 reports came from California in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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