Half-Moon Bay (off shore; cruise ship), CA, USA
8 pale bluish spheres seen hovering just above the water off Half-Moon Bay. 2 disappeared into the water.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-02-16
- Where
- Half-Moon Bay (off shore; cruise ship), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 37.464, -122.429 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-half-moon-bay-off-shore-cruise-ship-ca-2007-30455b
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Half-Moon Bay (off shore; cruise ship), CA.
- This case is one of 587 California reports filed in 2007.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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