CaseSphere2002
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Eastern part of the sky towards direction of brightest star in the sky.Dull orange colored orb.High altitude much higher than a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-13
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30-45 seconds
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-bernardino-ca-2002-f7e20f
In context
- San Bernardino, CA shows up 73 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California 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.