CaseSphere1998
Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
luminous orange sphere as big as a house flying horizontally then at angle of about 45 degrees flew off into sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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 (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-09
- Where
- Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 51.456, -0.971 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-reading-uk-england-1998-2899b7
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Reading (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 53 sightings in 1998.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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