CaseSphere1998
Lake Alpine, CA, USA
White spherical orb about three times the size of a full moon was observed from one mile away.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-13
- Where
- Lake Alpine, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 38.479, -120.004 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lake-alpine-ca-1998-9a87d8
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Lake Alpine, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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