CaseSphere2003
Lancaster, CA, USA
Retired aerospace employee witnesses loud, "flying sphere" near Edwards AFB.
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 (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-18
- Where
- Lancaster, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.698, -118.137 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lancaster-ca-2003-1fe729
In context
- This is one of 51 reports logged in Lancaster, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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