San Francisco, CA, USA
Yellow aura around bright red center low in sky and lossing the aura to then grow faint and rise up in the sky to vanish completly.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-26
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~5 to 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-francisco-ca-2011-c3bf24
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
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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