CaseSphere1998
San Jose, CA, USA
At approximately 1:30pm on 3/13/98, a group of seagulls caught my eye. As I looked up at the gulls,I noticed above them at about 4-5 wh
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-13
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 sec.
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-jose-ca-1998-12b3e2
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 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 daysReport
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