CaseSphere1996
San Diego, CA, USA
A metalic sphere flew across the daytime sky.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-01-01
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30seconds-1minute
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-diego-ca-1996-a494cb
In context
- This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 136 California reports filed in 1996.
- 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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