Pico Rivera, CA, USA
I was looking at the sky trying out a new pair of binoculars I got for a gift, any way I was looking at commercial aircraft I notice tw
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-16
- Where
- Pico Rivera, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 Minutes
- Geo
- 33.983, -118.097 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pico-rivera-ca-2005-d3a7f1
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
- Pico Rivera, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.