Palo Alto, CA, USA
Object following airliner briefly, then moving away from it at a rapid pace. After a few seconds, it disappeared completely
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-03
- Where
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.442, -122.143 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-palo-alto-ca-2005-9c85f5
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 25 documented reports from Palo Alto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 539 sightings in 2005.
- 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.