UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

San Rafael, CA, USA

Large green orb falling from high in sky until no longer visible driving south bound 101 20 miles north of san francisco.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-23
Where
San Rafael, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
37.974, -122.531 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-rafael-ca-2015-cb2883
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…

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In context

  • San Rafael, CA shows up 38 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

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