CaseSphere2014

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

Three silent red/orange balls of light moves quickly over the water and up into the clouds.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-04
Where
Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minutes
Geo
36.618, -121.917 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-pacific-grove-ca-2014-63366e
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

  • Pacific Grove, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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