CaseSphere1970
San Mateo, CA, USA
Schools kids witness UFO
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-01-22
- Where
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 37.563, -122.326 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-mateo-ca-1970-c932b2
In context
- This is one of 19 reports logged in San Mateo, CA.
- This case is one of 22 California reports filed in 1970.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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