UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Gadsden, AL, USA

3 ft. dia tan colored spherical object manuveing at 120+ knts.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Gadsden, AL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 Min.
Geo
34.014, -86.006 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-gadsden-al-1978-bd3c2b
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In context

  • Gadsden, AL shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Alabama in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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