CaseSphere1985
East London (South Africa), South Africa
The sphere looked as if it was going to hit the house!
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-06-01
- Where
- East London (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- -33.015, 27.912 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-east-london-south-africa-1985-79dcab
In context
- East London (South Africa), South Africa shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from South Africa in 1985.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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