CaseSphere1996
Cotati, CA, USA
Small, clear orb that floated up the hood of our car and up the window without changing shape or being affected by engine heat.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-15
- Where
- Cotati, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- approx. 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.327, -122.707 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-cotati-ca-1996-f68f7c
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Cotati, 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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