Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Stationary bright light observed foor over an hour.((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus, which is in the NW sky, currently. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 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
- 2010-04-21
- Where
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1.0 hours
- Geo
- 34.151, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sherman-oaks-ca-2010-9e7d16
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
- Sherman Oaks, CA shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
- 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.