CaseSphere1974
Santa Ana, CA, USA
A report from Santa Ana, CA in April 1974 described a large, pulsing red-orange light that moved slowly across the sky before disappearing, lasting 1 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 (157 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-04-15
- Where
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.868 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-ana-ca-1974-1b2833
In context
- This is one of 61 reports logged in Santa Ana, CA.
- This case is one of 33 California reports filed in 1974.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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