CaseSphere1986
Calypso, NC, USA
UFO of spherical red and yellow lights hovers over family leaving them with no memory of incident
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-09-11
- Where
- Calypso, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.154, -78.105 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-calypso-nc-1986-6ee0eb
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Calypso, NC.
- This case is one of 10 North Carolina reports filed in 1986.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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