Los Angeles, CA, USA
Silver Sphere observed above Southern California beach afternoon of 7/25/09.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-25
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10-15 sec.
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-los-angeles-ca-2009-1198bf
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in July 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 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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