CaseSphere1996
Blythe, CA, USA
A glowing orange sphere floats silently and slowly then shoots up at 45 degree angle faster than anything. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-09-05
- Where
- Blythe, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.610, -114.596 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-blythe-ca-1996-e8484e
In context
- One of 17 documented reports from Blythe, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 136 sightings in 1996.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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