UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Sphere chased by Huntington Beach Helocopter

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-12
Where
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.660, -117.999 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-huntington-beach-ca-1997-2cc524
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Huntington Beach, CA shows up 97 times across the archive.
  • 152 reports came from California in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

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.