Newport Corner (Canada), NS, Canada
"Ball of mercury," obscured by sole cloud. Object suddenly ascends very rapidly and disappears from sight. ((anonymous report))
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 (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-01
- Where
- Newport Corner (Canada), NS, Canada
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 44.966, -63.977 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-newport-corner-canada-ns-1978-9d8341
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In context
- Newport Corner (Canada), Canada shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Canada in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate 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.