CaseSphere1969
Arica (Chile), Chile
Shocking experience in north Chilean Desert "The Sphere"
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-05-06
- Where
- Arica (Chile), Chile
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- -18.476, -70.301 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-arica-chile-1969-df913d
In context
- Arica (Chile), Chile shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Chile in 1969.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 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.