CaseSphere2006

Yorba Linda, CA, USA

I was standing on my driveway when I saw a sliver spherical object hover above my neighborhood high in the sky.

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-20
Where
Yorba Linda, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 Seconds
Geo
33.889, -117.813 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-yorba-linda-ca-2006-4c2c12
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 19 reports logged in Yorba Linda, CA.
  • This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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