CaseSphere1998

Spokane, WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Spokane, WA, USA
Start: 1998-10-20
Location: Spokane, WA, USA

An object about the size of a large grapefruit,spherical,dull silver,no lights or appendages,came into view from the west at roughly a

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: 2s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-10-20
Where: Spokane, WA, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 2-3 sec
Geo: 47.660, -117.429 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-spokane-wa-1998-ba4941

In context

Spokane, WA has 235 sightings on file here.
1998 brought 147 reports from Washington.
The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Fireball · Spokane (I-90 from mile 238 eastbound, over), WA<1 km · 8d apart
Triangle · Spokane (About 30 miles SW of,I-90, maybe MM 254), WA<1 km · 10d apart

Report

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