CaseSphere1998
Auburn, CA, USA
I was WB I-80. Sun behind high clouds, grey/yellow in color, and bright. Saw other bright area approx. 50 degrees to the south. not as
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-19
- Where
- Auburn, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 38.897, -121.077 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-auburn-ca-1998-168ec9
In context
- This is one of 28 reports logged in Auburn, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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