CaseSphere1981
Olympia, WA, USA
Large orange illuminated sphere groming in size,stationary, just above treeline next to roadway.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-06-20
- Where
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 min
- Geo
- 47.045, -122.902 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-olympia-wa-1981-4063a7
In context
- This is one of 112 reports logged in Olympia, WA.
- This case is one of 6 Washington reports filed in 1981.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s 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.