CaseSphere1979
Phoenix, AZ, USA
20+ ft diameter clear crystalline sphere traveling slowly and silently a few hundred ft above and parallel to ground
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-17
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-phoenix-az-1979-3146ca
In context
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
- This case is one of 6 Arizona reports filed in 1979.
- 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.