San Leandro, CA, USA
3 orange spheres moving in a line, no sound, leader stops momentarily, disappears straight up in to the sky, other two follow after.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-03
- Where
- San Leandro, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.725, -122.156 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-leandro-ca-2013-e63a31
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 Leandro, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 728 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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