CaseSphere1998
Hillsboro, MO, USA
Red ball of light low to the east, which hung in the air motionless, for 3 to 4 minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-04
- Where
- Hillsboro, MO, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.232, -90.563 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hillsboro-mo-1998-0debca
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Hillsboro, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 38 sightings in 1998.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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