Del Mar, CA, USA
Looked out on Pacific Ocean horizon while stanidng approx. 30 ft from 40ft. cliff above sea shore.saw 8 - 3" or so gold sphere ligh
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-17
- Where
- Del Mar, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-8 minutes
- Geo
- 32.959, -117.265 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-del-mar-ca-2007-2226ce
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
- Del Mar, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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