CaseSphere1998
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Metallic sphere over Los Angeles International Airport.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-10
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1:30
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-monica-ca-1998-48622c
In context
- Santa Monica, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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