UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Marana, AZ, USA

That's NOT the moon!

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-05-22
Where
Marana, AZ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
60 min ??
Geo
32.437, -111.225 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-marana-az-1977-5d171c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Marana, AZ has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 4 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.