San Francisco (50 miles south of), CA, USA
101 freeway South of S.F. mysterious lights, orbs of intelligent energy being captured .. what was that?
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-03-12
- Where
- San Francisco (50 miles south of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-francisco-50-miles-south-of-ca-2006-0862db
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 1 documented reports from San Francisco (50 miles south of), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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