CaseSphere1971
Inyokern, CA, USA
A huge, black spherical object with sparking edges was reported flying in a straight line near Inyokern, California, in June 1971, visible for about forty seconds or more.
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (171 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-30
- Where
- Inyokern, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~40 seconds
- Geo
- 35.647, -117.813 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-inyokern-ca-1971-b7c133
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Inyokern, CA.
- This case is one of 23 California reports filed in 1971.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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