UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Saint James, NY, USA

I, and two other witnesses, observed a red glowing sphere for approximately 10 seconds.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-11-23
Where
Saint James, NY, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.879, -73.157 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-saint-james-ny-1977-f36c23
Wave

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Saint James, NY in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New York logged 17 sightings in 1977.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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