CaseSphere2002
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Orange ball of light moving in all directions and going through the atmosphere (burning). ON VIDEO!
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-07
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- about 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-bernardino-ca-2002-86a4ad
In context
- San Bernardino, CA shows up 73 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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