CaseSphere1977

Fort Worth, TX, USA

Orange ball objects seen near Ft. Worth, Texas twenty three years ago.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
32.725, -97.321 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-fort-worth-tx-1977-445638
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Fort Worth, TX shows up 116 times across the archive.
  • 16 reports came from Texas in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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