Abu Gosh (Israel), Israel
Observed two light spheres in the Abu Gosh valley of Israel that blinked out and entered the ground.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-01
- Where
- Abu Gosh (Israel), Israel
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
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- Slug
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Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- Abu Gosh (Israel), Israel has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 7 reports from Israel.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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