UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Cottonwood, CA, USA

Orange sphere's approx. 20-25 in night sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-02-28
Where
Cottonwood, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.658, -121.971 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-cottonwood-ca-2013-1d4b8e
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Cottonwood, CA.
  • This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.