UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

San Francisco, CA, USA

I was lying on our roof getting some sun today. It's an 8 floor apartment building in downtown SF. Was there about a half hour lying

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-02
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-francisco-ca-2017-d4eb1d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 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.