CaseSphere1939
Belton, SC, USA
A witness in Belton, South Carolina reported a dark red, sphere-shaped object arcing across the southern sky at dusk, observed for about 10 seconds in the summer of 1939.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1939-06-30
- Where
- Belton, SC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.523, -82.494 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-belton-sc-1939-0b1cc5
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Belton, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 1 sightings in 1939.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.6% during the 1930s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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