CaseSphere2006

St. Andrews (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom

I was watching the events taking place on the turn (9th green and 10th fairway) on the St Andrews Old Course golf links where I sit for

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-05-23
Where
St. Andrews (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 sec
Geo
51.560, 0.217 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-andrews-uk-scotland-2006-bee78f
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from St. Andrews (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 221 sightings in 2006.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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