Philadelphia, PA, USA
eight foot flurescant globe puts out lights then floats through antenna farm missing a dozen towers and a hundred cables
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-10-04
- Where
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- twenty minutes
- Geo
- 39.952, -75.164 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-philadelphia-pa-1978-b215d8
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In context
- This is one of 203 reports logged in Philadelphia, PA.
- This case is one of 18 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1978.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s 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.