CaseSphere2003
Santa Maria, CA, USA
the bright white star like object speed in an arch from east to west into the horizon in the black of night.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-02-01
- Where
- Santa Maria, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.953, -120.436 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-maria-ca-2003-e8c496
In context
- Santa Maria, CA shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 599 reports came from California in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.