CaseSphere1961
Rotan, TX, USA
large, beeping orb with lighted spires
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: 1650s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-06-30
- Where
- Rotan, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 25 to 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.852, -100.466 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rotan-tx-1961-283642
In context
- Rotan, TX shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Texas in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% 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.