CaseSphere2002
Santa Clara, CA, USA
UNKNOWN SPACE DEBRIS TRAVELING NORTH WITH A VERY LARGE CONE SHAPE VAPOR TRAIL
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2mins
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-santa-clara-ca-2002-6b2447
In context
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Santa Clara, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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