This seems more like a random point on a spiral on the sphere. There was a thing on hn about spirals on a sphere few days ago.
EDIT: Plotting it out as a point cloud seems to confirm your suspicion.
Without scaling: https://editor.p5js.org/spyrja/sketches/7IK_RssLI
Scaling fixed: https://editor.p5js.org/spyrja/sketches/kMxQMG0dj