CaseSphere2006

Orland, CA, USA

ORBS watching over a launch of there own.

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 (41 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-2006-461f6a
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

  • Orland, CA has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 561 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.