CaseSphere2013

San Gwann (Malta), Malta

Bright Green sphere of light. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-01-03
Where
San Gwann (Malta), Malta
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
35.906, 14.476 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-gwann-malta-2013-21d694
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…

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in San Gwann (Malta), Malta.
  • This case is one of 2 Malta reports filed in 2013.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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