CaseSphere2013

Kingston (Canada), ON, Canada

((HOAX??)) Large stationary black sphere noticed then evaporates into thin air.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2013-05-03
Where
Kingston (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
44.230, -76.481 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kingston-canada-on-2013-ddb4e8
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

  • Kingston (Canada), Canada has 37 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 356 reports from Canada.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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