CaseSphere1998

Desert Center (~west to 10 miles east of Chiriaco Summit), CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Desert Center (~west to 10 miles east of Chiriaco Summit), CA, USA
Start: 1998-09-01
Location: Desert Center (~west to 10 miles east of Chiriaco Summit), CA, USA

At two different locations 15 miles apart we saw 4 huge orbs of bright light. Two very different formations. On the second sighting saw

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-09-01
Where: Desert Center (~west to 10 miles east of Chiriaco Summit), CA, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 45 minutes
Geo: 33.713, -115.402 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-desert-center-west-to-10-miles-east-of-chiriaco-summit-ca-1998-aa5f6d

In context

Desert Center (~west to 10 miles east of Chiriaco Summit), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
232 reports came from California in 1998.
In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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