Bear Valley, CA, USA
The 4 objects moved very rapidly from east to west, then dissappeared.
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 (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-08-15
- Where
- Bear Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 37.569, -120.119 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bear-valley-ca-2004-9eef8d
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Bear Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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