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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