CaseSphere2006
Orland, CA, USA
Orb's overlooking there launch of a craft.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-09
- Where
- Orland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 MINUTE
- Geo
- 39.747, -122.196 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-orland-ca-2006-092125
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 20 documented reports from Orland, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- 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.