Eastern U.S. (commercial flight), USA
Eastern U.S.: Metal / gray sphere seen during commercial flight. [CORRECTION to 7/23/11 report]
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-26
- Where
- Eastern U.S. (commercial flight), USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~3 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-eastern-u-s-commercial-flight-2011-d79b1c
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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 Eastern U.S. (commercial flight), USA in the UFOMYST archive.
- USA logged 14 sightings in 2011.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
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