CaseSphere1998
Bodie (State Historic Park), CA, USA
I saw a spherical object traveling east to west at 3PM. It appeared to change from white to black to silver and flew below the clouds.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-21
- Where
- Bodie (State Historic Park), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.212, -119.012 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bodie-state-historic-park-ca-1998-468a18
In context
- Bodie (State Historic Park), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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