CaseSphere1996
Blythe (north of), CA, USA
Orange luminescent globe hovering in desert sky then moving at the speed of a meteor.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-10
- Where
- Blythe (north of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 33.610, -114.596 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-blythe-north-of-ca-1996-4aea1a
In context
- Blythe (north of), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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