CaseSphere2017

Watsonville, CA, USA

Red spheres.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (12 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-13
Where
Watsonville, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5>
Geo
36.910, -121.757 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-watsonville-ca-2017-773908
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

  • This is one of 42 reports logged in Watsonville, CA.
  • This case is one of 594 California reports filed in 2017.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

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.