CaseSphere1998
Arab, AL, USA
Bright orange sphere in southwest quadrant of sky which appeared to be at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet close to Atlanta/Bir
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-15
- Where
- Arab, AL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 34.318, -86.496 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-arab-al-1998-5016a2
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Arab, AL.
- This case is one of 18 Alabama reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.