CaseSphere1998
Grand Island, NY, USA
Round(circular) completely illuminated object and silent.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-14
- Where
- Grand Island, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 90 sec
- Geo
- 43.033, -78.963 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-grand-island-ny-1998-a82936
In context
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Grand Island, NY.
- This case is one of 71 New York reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.