UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Ardmore (near), AL, USA

Silver Sphere Hovering above treeline on Interstate 65 N.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-07
Where
Ardmore (near), AL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.174, -97.144 · fallback
Slug
sphere-over-ardmore-near-al-1978-97a87e
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Ardmore (near), AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 6 sightings in 1978.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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