CaseSphere1988
Van Nuys (Colbath Ave.), CA, USA
saw black sphere floating in yard 5 ft away.no light no sound.told everyone i knew.saw it on the news 2 days later filmed in orange cou
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-07-15
- Where
- Van Nuys (Colbath Ave.), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10min
- Geo
- 34.187, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-van-nuys-colbath-ave-ca-1988-9260c6
In context
- Van Nuys (Colbath Ave.), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from California in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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