CaseSphere1986
Orchard park, NY, USA
Hovering ball that was not from this world
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-01
- Where
- Orchard park, NY, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.768, -78.744 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-orchard-park-ny-1986-f5cd2c
In context
- Orchard park, NY shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from New York in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.