CaseSphere2002
Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
disk circled by point, explosion
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 (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-04-19
- Where
- Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 28.068, -80.560 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-melbourne-beach-fl-2002-08fdb4
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Melbourne Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 154 Florida reports filed in 2002.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s 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.