CaseSphere2002
Malibu, CA, USA
bright, large, white sphere, with flaming orange contrails over Pacific Coast Highway
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-malibu-ca-2002-9f17b0
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Malibu, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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