CaseSphere1998

San Diego, CA, USA

From the south a somewhat dim yellow/green/orange sphere floated up and to the north from behind some trees. It then almost stopped and

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-08-28
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-san-diego-ca-1998-2cc640

In context

  • San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
  • 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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