UFOMYST
Casesphere1997

Mountain View, CA, USA

While travelling eastbound on Moffet Blvd at 6:48p.m. I observed what I first thought to be a plane. The object was spherical in shape

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-16
Where
Mountain View, CA, USA
Shape
sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.386, -122.084 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mountain-view-ca-1997-45dea0
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Mountain View, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 152 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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