UFOMYST
CaseSphere2021

Woodland, CA, USA

Bright orange orb hovering in the sky but also dancing around and abruptly vanishing

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-08-10
Where
Woodland, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.679, -121.773 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-woodland-ca-2021-336459
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 31 reports logged in Woodland, CA.
  • This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s 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.