Yucaipa, CA, USA
slow spinning sphere that changed from solid black to shinny transparent while floating in one spot.
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-20
- Where
- Yucaipa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-8 minutes
- Geo
- 34.034, -117.043 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-yucaipa-ca-2011-a38d82
Part of a wave
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
- Yucaipa, CA shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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