CaseUnknown2009
Bell, CA, USA
metalic spheres
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-24
- Where
- Bell, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 33.978, -118.187 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bell-ca-2009-5a3bf5
Wave
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
- Bell, CA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 647 reports from California.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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