CaseSphere1998
Rochester, NY, USA
I observed a very bright sphere travelling from 60 deg. to 20 deg. East of Rochester, NY. It was a bright white sphere, moving very fas
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 secs
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rochester-ny-1998-b6efba
In context
- This is one of 139 reports logged in Rochester, NY.
- This case is one of 71 New York reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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