CaseSphere1974

San Diego (Mission Bay Walk/Santa Clara Ct. M.B.), CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — San Diego (Mission Bay Walk/Santa Clara Ct. M.B.), CA, USA
Start: 1974-06-15
Location: San Diego (Mission Bay Walk/Santa Clara Ct. M.B.), CA, USA

A report from San Diego, CA in June 1974 described an enormous, sphere-shaped object that appeared to shrink rapidly to the size of a star, lasting 3+minutes.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (158 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1974-06-15
Where: San Diego (Mission Bay Walk/Santa Clara Ct. M.B.), CA, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 3+min
Geo: 32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-san-diego-mission-bay-walk-santa-clara-ct-m-b-ca-1974-dbcd77

In context

San Diego (Mission Bay Walk/Santa Clara Ct. M.B.), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
33 reports came from California in 1974.
In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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