CaseSphere2001
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
Basically it looked like a shooting star. The odd thing was the duration and sound. It started high in the ski to the NE and made its
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-13
- Where
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 Seconds
- Geo
- 33.744, -118.387 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rancho-palos-verdes-ca-2001-6a6dca
In context
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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