Berkeley, CA, USA
Low-altitude red-orange orb slows down, then recedes to the size of a star and disappears.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-05
- Where
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.872, -122.273 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-berkeley-ca-2012-d2d275
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
- Berkeley, CA shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 758 reports came from California in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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