CaseSphere1978

Pointe Reyes, CA, USA

5 Gold Sun like Round Objects appear, do manuvers, then one comes and hovers over the vessel i am in...

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-15
Where
Pointe Reyes, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
approx. 1/2hr+
Geo
Slug
sphere-over-pointe-reyes-ca-1978-4f4fac
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Pointe Reyes, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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