Lincoln, CA, USA
Low alt. flyover of red turning to blue then back to red sphere. Rapid departure. ((NUFORC Note: Model airplane?? PD))
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: 28s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-23
- Where
- Lincoln, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 25-30 seconds
- Geo
- 38.892, -121.293 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lincoln-ca-2014-0f5349
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
- Lincoln, CA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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