CaseSphere2001
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Large yellow-tinged spheroid in predawn sky over Santa Barbara at 30,000 and 300mph
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-14
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-barbara-ca-2001-d4ca4a
In context
- Santa Barbara, CA has 117 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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