UFOMYST
CaseSphere2021

Los Angeles, CA, USA

My wife and I were playing outside with our 5 year old when I noticed 3 spheres passing in front of the moon. There was one sphere lead

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-17
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-los-angeles-ca-2021-9990e9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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