CaseSphere1986
Apache Junction, AZ, USA
RED GLOWING SPHERE FLIES NEAR GROUND IN ARIZONA DESERT
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-06-12
- Where
- Apache Junction, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.550 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-apache-junction-az-1986-e168ce
In context
- Apache Junction, AZ has 48 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 7 reports from Arizona.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure 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.