UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Winchester, CA, USA

two stars rotating tightly together as they fell slowly not a min later the direction slightly changed and it looked as if it projected

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-01-04
Where
Winchester, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
more than five mins
Geo
33.707, -117.084 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-winchester-ca-2011-08be38
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 3 documented reports from Winchester, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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