Willits, CA, USA
Thought it was a balloon then realized it was moving horizontally and it made a very precise 90 degree turn
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 (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-29
- Where
- Willits, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Approximately 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.410, -123.356 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-willits-ca-2022-089808
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 13 documented reports from Willits, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 113 sightings in 2022.
- Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (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.