CaseSphere1997
Bladen, NE, USA
ufos on the moon????
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-15
- Where
- Bladen, NE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.322, -98.595 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bladen-ne-1997-d642b4
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Bladen, NE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Nebraska logged 8 sightings in 1997.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 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.