CaseSphere2001
San Mateo, CA, USA
A spherical craft shot into the air from a large patch of intensely bright light.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-03
- Where
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.563, -122.326 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-mateo-ca-2001-06413c
In context
- San Mateo, CA shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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