CaseSphere1970
West Jefferson, NC, USA
Eight orange, glowing orbs in a V-shaped formation were reported over West Jefferson, North Carolina, appearing at the same time on several nights in June 1970, each lasting ten to twenty minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (196 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-06-23
- Where
- West Jefferson, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10-20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.404, -81.493 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-west-jefferson-nc-1970-efebcb
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In context
- West Jefferson, NC has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1970 brought 2 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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