CaseSphere1978
Ukiah, CA, USA
1978 sphere inside cloud over Ukiah Valley, Ca beams of light radiated out from it after a few minutes
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-11-27
- Where
- Ukiah, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.150, -123.208 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ukiah-ca-1978-114034
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Ukiah, CA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.