CaseSphere1971
Atlantic Ocean (CV-67 U.S.Navy), Atlantic Ocean
Crew aboard a U.S. Navy vessel in the Atlantic Ocean reported a communications failure followed by a large glowing spherical object hovering over the ship for about five minutes in July 1971.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-07-02
- Where
- Atlantic Ocean (CV-67 U.S.Navy), Atlantic Ocean
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-atlantic-ocean-cv-67-u-s-navy-1971-487a1e
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Atlantic Ocean (CV-67 U.S.Navy), Atlantic Ocean.
- This case is one of 1 Atlantic Ocean reports filed in 1971.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s 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.