CaseSphere2008

Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada

Sphere spotted in Vancouver

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-12
Where
Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5- 8 min
Geo
49.250, -123.119 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-vancouver-canada-bc-2008-86e351
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

  • Vancouver (Canada), Canada has 136 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 153 reports from Canada.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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