CaseSphere1998
Des Moines, WA, USA
Multi-colored sphere shaped object observed in western sky for approx. 30 minutes, the first 15 minutes or so in a stationary position.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-19
- Where
- Des Moines, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 47.402, -122.324 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-des-moines-wa-1998-530a32
In context
- Des Moines, WA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 147 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure 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.