CaseSphere1999
San Francisco (Ocean side of), CA, USA
Moon shaped, reddish-orange sphere (sligtly obscurred by clouds) object quickly descended into the ocean water in the horizon in front
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-25
- Where
- San Francisco (Ocean side of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-francisco-ocean-side-of-ca-1999-74945a
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Francisco (Ocean side of), CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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