Lakewood, CA, USA
Bright dots looked like balloons. Moving slowly and forming a triangle in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-07
- Where
- Lakewood, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.854, -118.134 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lakewood-ca-2007-b612c5
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
- One of 28 documented reports from Lakewood, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 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.