UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Sun Valley, CA, USA

We watched the circle shaped craft move erratic across the sky.it seemed to be hovering and searching for something it had red and whi

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-02
Where
Sun Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.218, -118.370 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sun-valley-ca-2017-0357f6
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…

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Sun Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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