CaseSphere2016

Barcelona (Spain), Spain

Flying metal sphere. No sound. Wobbled. Became transparent. Vanished. (Barcelona, Spain March, 2016)

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-14
Where
Barcelona (Spain), Spain
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4-5 seconds
Geo
41.389, 2.159 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-barcelona-spain-2016-038fc0
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

  • One of 13 documented reports from Barcelona (Spain), Spain in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Spain logged 5 sightings in 2016.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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