CaseSphere2008
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Strange Object seen during Los Angles Airport (LAX) Approach...
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-21
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 Seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-los-angeles-ca-2008-813f7c
Wave
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 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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