CaseSphere1998
Skelmersdale, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
10 metre diameter red orb, moving slowly, event followed by lightening
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-06
- Where
- Skelmersdale, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10''
- Geo
- 53.550, -2.773 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-skelmersdale-lancashire-uk-england-1998-6acfce
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Skelmersdale, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 53 United Kingdom reports filed in 1998.
- 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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