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CaseSphere2015

Sacramento, CA, USA

While crawdad fishing on the American River, I looked into the sky and noticed an orange glowing orb.

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 (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-28
Where
Sacramento, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.582, -121.494 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sacramento-ca-2015-681aa9
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Sacramento, CA reports filed in October 2015.

In context

  • Sacramento, CA shows up 304 times across the archive.
  • 814 reports came from California in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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