CaseSphere2001
Ithaca, NY, USA
I saw a brilliant sphere, that a search light came out of...the search light went out, and the sphere disappeared.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-16
- Where
- Ithaca, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 42.441, -76.497 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ithaca-ny-2001-f72245
In context
- Ithaca, NY has 31 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 152 reports from New York.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure 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.