UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Duck Island, NC, USA

Object came out of the ocean about a half mile away.We thought it was a helicopter at first and it was getting shiney as it looked lik

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-27
Where
Duck Island, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 min
Geo
35.800, -75.594 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-duck-island-nc-2011-5807af
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

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Duck Island, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 195 sightings in 2011.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

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