CaseSphere1968
Carpinteria (Santa Barbara County), CA, USA
Witnesses in Carpinteria, California, reported three large spherical objects moving slowly westward, hovering, and then each disappearing in turn, during a ten-minute sighting in January 1968.
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 (192 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-01-29
- Where
- Carpinteria (Santa Barbara County), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 34.399, -119.518 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-carpinteria-santa-barbara-county-ca-1968-4a196e
In context
- Carpinteria (Santa Barbara County), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 32 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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