Eureka, CA, USA
Small black spherical object observed in the eastern horizon at about 30 degrees
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-18
- Where
- Eureka, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 to 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.802, -124.164 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-eureka-ca-2006-9f2c59
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 42 documented reports from Eureka, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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