CaseSphere2019
Asheville, NC, USA
Orange-Red Sphere/Ball of Light. ((anonymous source))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-05-24
- Where
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.601, -82.554 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-asheville-nc-2019-846f42
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 67 documented reports from Asheville, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 162 sightings in 2019.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.