Paso Robles, CA, USA
I went out to have a cig on the back porch of the hilltop home I am staying at, that's when i noticed a bright silver sphere object in
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-02-28
- Where
- Paso Robles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 35.627, -120.691 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-paso-robles-ca-2011-4b29da
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
- Paso Robles, CA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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