CaseSphere2005

International Space Shuttle, In orbit

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else noticed the sphere that came into the live shuttle feed just after the astronauts entered the shuttl

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-02
Where
International Space Shuttle, In orbit
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 secs
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-international-space-shuttle-2005-9a2edf
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

  • International Space Shuttle, In orbit shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from In orbit in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

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