Merced, CA, USA
A witness in Merced, California reported three glowing, chartreuse, sphere-shaped objects moving in a wide arc across the valley sky, observed for 10 seconds in February 1946.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1946-02-01
- Where
- Merced, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.302, -120.483 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-merced-ca-1946-512238
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Merced, CA.
- This case is one of 2 California reports filed in 1946.
- Sphere craft made up 4.5% of 1940s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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