UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Orange, CA, USA

Black sphere seen at 400 feet AGL moving slow at dusk

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-13
Where
Orange, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 min.
Geo
33.788, -117.853 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-orange-ca-2004-1066e7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 43 documented reports from Orange, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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