UFOMYST
CaseSphere1980

Irvine, CA, USA

Dot of light making imposable turn

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1980-10-02
Where
Irvine, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.669, -117.823 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-irvine-ca-1980-1451d6

In context

  • One of 85 documented reports from Irvine, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 36 sightings in 1980.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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