CaseSphere1959
Miami, FL, USA
In 1959, a witness in Miami, Florida, described a childhood encounter with a spherical, faceted object that reportedly landed in their backyard for 30 to 45 minutes.
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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-04-01
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30-45 Minutes
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-miami-fl-1959-134c73
In context
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 3 reports from Florida.
- The 1950s skewed 5.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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