CaseSphere2020

Commerce, GA, USA

Giant white light sphere seen hovering for 45 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Anonymous source. Venus?? Hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2020-03-10
Where
Commerce, GA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
34.204, -83.457 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-commerce-ga-2020-6b77ba
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Commerce, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 130 sightings in 2020.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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