UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Ocean View, HI, USA

Bright Color changing Erratically flying object in the Western Sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a planet, or star?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-01-23
Where
Ocean View, HI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 hours
Geo
38.545, -75.089 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-ocean-view-hi-2015-8cae7e
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Ocean View, HI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Hawaii logged 27 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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