CaseSphere2002
Polk City, FL, USA
Bright Metallic Sphere Flies Over Florida Prison
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-25
- Where
- Polk City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1minute sev sec
- Geo
- 28.183, -81.824 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-polk-city-fl-2002-e6172c
In context
- Polk City, FL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 154 reports came from Florida in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% 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.