CaseSphere1961
Bartow/Mulberry, FL, USA
after getting our attention the object approached us, we followed this object while it stopped and waited on us three times
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-12-17
- Where
- Bartow/Mulberry, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 25 min
- Geo
- 27.896, -81.843 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bartow-mulberry-fl-1961-0c6916
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Bartow/Mulberry, FL.
- This case is one of 4 Florida reports filed in 1961.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s 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.