CaseSphere2008
Phillipsburg, KS, USA
Formation of Orbs
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 130s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (17 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-28
- Where
- Phillipsburg, KS, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.756, -99.324 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-phillipsburg-ks-2008-c26526
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Phillipsburg, KS.
- This case is one of 31 Kansas reports filed in 2008.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s 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.