CaseSphere1961
Vancouver, WA, USA
In 1961, a witness in Vancouver, Washington, reported two purple spherical objects hovering parallel to each other before separating and moving west, over about fifteen minutes.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-05-15
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-vancouver-wa-1961-9bce00
In context
- Vancouver, WA shows up 223 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Washington in 1961.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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