CaseSphere1996
Wharton, OH, USA
Strange 75'ball of light that move silently at right angleand up and down.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-10
- Where
- Wharton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.861, -83.462 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-wharton-oh-1996-0fe1c7
In context
- Wharton, OH shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 29 reports came from Ohio in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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