CaseSphere1962
Runge, TX, USA
A nine-year-old boy in Runge, Texas reported seeing a transparent, spherical object in November 1962 that appeared to react upon being noticed, in an encounter lasting about one minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1962-11-15
- Where
- Runge, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 28.883, -97.713 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-runge-tx-1962-fdc21a
In context
- Runge, TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Texas in 1962.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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