Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
6 or 7 white metallic spheres hovering over burbank blvd in sherman oaks/van nuys.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-23
- Where
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.151, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sherman-oaks-ca-2021-a8b62b
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
- This is one of 40 reports logged in Sherman Oaks, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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