CaseSphere1950
New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
"Ball" shape object, size of a softball, gliding above 4 stories high , moving straight at 15 mph., sped up heading for the
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 (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-05-15
- Where
- New York City (Bronx), NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.714, -74.006 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-new-york-city-bronx-ny-1950-a1a50b
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in New York City (Bronx), NY.
- This case is one of 2 New York reports filed in 1950.
- Sphere craft made up 5.1% of 1950s 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.