UFOMYST
CaseOval2014

Gastonia, NC, USA

Silver Ball in Lightning storm - update - not a hoax!

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2014-09-03
Where
Gastonia, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.262, -81.187 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gastonia-nc-2014-1e8edc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Gastonia, NC has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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