CaseSphere1987
Chino Valley, AZ, USA
3 witnesses of 3 flying objects at close distance and several hours of lost time.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 18000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-08-15
- Where
- Chino Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Geo
- 34.758, -112.454 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-chino-valley-az-1987-431077
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Chino Valley, AZ.
- This case is one of 8 Arizona reports filed in 1987.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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