Redding, CA, USA
Redding, CA Unidentified Flying Object in bright orange light seen with brother and two other friends on November 2008.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-01
- Where
- Redding, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-redding-ca-2008-d8abc6
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
- One of 103 documented reports from Redding, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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