Wembly (UK/England), United Kingdom
ball lightining
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-02-07
- Where
- Wembly (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 39.793, -75.488 · fallback
- Slug
- sphere-over-wembly-uk-england-1978-f3e30c
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Wembly (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 14 United Kingdom reports filed in 1978.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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