CaseSphere2011

Jerusalem (Israel), Israel

At 1:00 A.M. on the 28th of January a U F O ball of light descended right over the top of the Dome of the Rock. ((Hoaxed video. PD))

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 23s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2011-01-28
Where
Jerusalem (Israel), Israel
Shape
Sphere
Duration
23 seconds
Geo
31.769, 35.216 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-jerusalem-israel-2011-075195
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

  • Jerusalem (Israel), Israel shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from Israel in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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