CaseSphere1980
Boonville, CA, USA
Boonville, Ca. 10/1980: just after dark, two orange glowing spheres, 200 feet from ground, 15 ft diam., 40 ft apart, 10 mph
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-15
- Where
- Boonville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.009, -123.366 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-boonville-ca-1980-15cf63
In context
- Boonville, CA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1980 brought 36 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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