San Diego, CA, USA
White or silver sphere moving fast and erratically across horizon and against the wind
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-01
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- :40 seconds
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-diego-ca-2004-4c1c81
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 516 documented reports from San Diego, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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