CaseSphere1978

St. Clair, PA, USA

Glowing sphere of light near St Clair - Burma road fire tower late 1970's-1980 era

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 (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-20
Where
St. Clair, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.721, -76.191 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-clair-pa-1978-1e2f35
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • St. Clair, PA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 18 reports from Pennsylvania.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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