CaseCone1998
Sarasota, FL, USA
Object observed coming from SE at twilight, sky very clear and not yet dark. Object was white with small white core moving towards us (
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-07
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-sarasota-fl-1998-8c5698
In context
- Sarasota, FL shows up 130 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Florida in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 0.3% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
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.