CaseSphere1982
Mason City, IA, USA
While helping on paper rout, early morning, right orange globe went down off to my right.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-09-12
- Where
- Mason City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 43.154, -93.201 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mason-city-ia-1982-1d8515
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Mason City, IA.
- This case is one of 1 Iowa reports filed in 1982.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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