UFOMYST
Casesphere1997

Rachel, NV, USA

Orange balls of light in sky, 1 to 4 balls visible at a time, multiples were in row. Lights materialized, one at a time, then slowly fa

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-02
Where
Rachel, NV, USA
Shape
sphere
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
37.645, -115.744 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rachel-nv-1997-71bc89
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Rachel, NV shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Nevada in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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