CaseSphere1986
Fresno County, CA, USA
We 3 saw huge orange sphere almost silently fly north in foothills of Sierra Nevada mountains in central California in 1980s
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 (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-08-20
- Where
- Fresno County, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 36.758, -119.649 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-fresno-county-ca-1986-5c68db
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Fresno County, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 27 sightings in 1986.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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