CaseSphere2020
Port Orchard, WA, USA
Orange floating rotating ball, appears to follow me as I Walk around
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-09
- Where
- Port Orchard, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 47.540, -122.636 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-port-orchard-wa-2020-0b821e
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
- Port Orchard, WA shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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