CaseSphere1998

Rapid City, MI, USA

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Report quality: Low18/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (8 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
1998-07-01
Where
Rapid City, MI, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 hour
Geo
44.834, -85.283 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rapid-city-mi-1998-885bdc

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Rapid City, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Michigan logged 58 sightings in 1998.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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