CaseSphere2011

Western U.S. (commercial flight), USA

Western U.S.: Metal / gray sphere seen during commercial flight.

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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  • Duration parsed: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (64 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-23
Where
Western U.S. (commercial flight), USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~3 seconds
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-western-u-s-commercial-flight-2011-937c8e
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  • 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…

In context

  • Western U.S. (commercial flight), USA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 14 reports from USA.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

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