CaseCircle1974
Ft. Bragg, NC, USA
A report from near Ft. Bragg, NC in May 1974 described a glowing, spherical object described as resembling a large, lit basketball with no light around it, lasting 3min.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (169 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-01
- Where
- Ft. Bragg, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3min
- Geo
- 35.139, -79.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-ft-bragg-nc-1974-ea0b88
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Ft. Bragg, NC.
- This case is one of 10 North Carolina reports filed in 1974.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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