St. Albert (Canada), AB, Canada
Weather balloon doing some experiment? Recorded the event with a telescope!
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 (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-28
- Where
- St. Albert (Canada), AB, Canada
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 53.633, -113.635 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-st-albert-canada-ab-2004-5f142b
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 11 documented reports from St. Albert (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
- Canada logged 362 sightings in 2004.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.