Olongapo, Philippines
Gigantic sphere covered with triangula patterns of various and continously changing colored light, totally silent propulsion sys.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-04-15
- Where
- Olongapo, Philippines
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20-30 min.
- Geo
- 14.829, 120.283 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-olongapo-1978-cbade4
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Olongapo, Philippines.
- This case is one of 2 Philippines reports filed in 1978.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.