CaseSphere2000
Torrance, CA, USA
White/silver round balloon like object that behaved uncharacteristically of a balloon over SW Los Angeles by moving up and down.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-08-11
- Where
- Torrance, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.836, -118.341 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-torrance-ca-2000-d960b7
In context
- Torrance, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 439 reports came from California in 2000.
- 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.