CaseSphere1971
Delta (Canada), BC, Canada
A witness in Delta, British Columbia, Canada reported a spherical object that moved in a wave-like pattern and appeared to change color as it accelerated away, in September 1971.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-09-10
- Where
- Delta (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 49.089, -123.053 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-delta-canada-bc-1971-3bd545
In context
- Delta (Canada), Canada shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Canada in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.