Aptos, CA, USA
Two bright orange spheres headed w/sw were sighted in Aptos, California at 11:15 on July 23, 2015.
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 (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-23
- Where
- Aptos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.977, -121.899 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-aptos-ca-2015-b3e9ee
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
- Aptos, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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