CaseSphere1972
Fortuna (foothills), CA, USA
Witnesses in the foothills near Fortuna, California, reportedly hundreds of people, described a huge, self-illuminated sphere with a translucent field, during a ninety-minute sighting, October 1972.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-10-05
- Where
- Fortuna (foothills), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 & 1/2
- Geo
- 40.598, -124.157 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fortuna-foothills-ca-1972-00f518
In context
- Fortuna (foothills), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from California in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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