Boulder Creek, CA, USA
At 20:10-ish on 09/24/14 the object in question was flying at an altitude approximately 500' - 1000' from a Northwesterly direction. It
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-24
- Where
- Boulder Creek, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.126, -122.122 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-boulder-creek-ca-2014-92868a
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 10 documented reports from Boulder Creek, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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