CaseSphere1987
El Centro (approaching from west), CA, USA
Two large, apparently sperical objects, glowing brightly in the deep red, approached from behind, passed overhead, and into distance.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-01-10
- Where
- El Centro (approaching from west), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.792, -115.563 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-el-centro-approaching-from-west-ca-1987-4a95c5
In context
- El Centro (approaching from west), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from California in 1987.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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