Scotts Valley, CA, USA
7 red orbs appearing one at a time out of nowhere just above the horizon
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 (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Scotts Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.051, -122.015 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-scotts-valley-ca-2013-f23b90
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 4 documented reports from Scotts Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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