UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Bensalem, PA, USA

The craft hovered approx. 15 ft. above my station wagon.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-11-17
Where
Bensalem, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.105, -74.951 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bensalem-pa-1977-89965d
Wave

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In context

  • Bensalem, PA shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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