CaseSphere1998
Maple Shade, NJ, USA
Thought it was the North Star. Same brightness, color and size. Moved east to north in the NE sky about 60 deg. above the horizon.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-29
- Where
- Maple Shade, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.953, -74.992 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-maple-shade-nj-1998-829773
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Maple Shade, NJ.
- This case is one of 27 New Jersey reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.