CaseSphere1957
Jena, LA, USA
A driver near Jena, Louisiana reported sphere-shaped objects to the southeast while driving; multiple other cars stopped to observe, over about 15 minutes in March 1957.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-03-05
- Where
- Jena, LA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15min.
- Geo
- 31.683, -92.134 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-jena-la-1957-19aa54
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Jena, LA.
- This case is one of 1 Louisiana reports filed in 1957.
- Sphere craft made up 5.1% of 1950s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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