UFOMYST
CaseSphere2014

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Sphere appears in the second of three consecutive photos, and then disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Object later identified. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-01
Where
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Snapshot
Geo
36.974, -122.031 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-santa-cruz-ca-2014-6cae60
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

  • Santa Cruz, CA shows up 76 times across the archive.
  • 869 reports came from California in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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