CaseSphere2021

Fayetteville, NC, USA

The orb was bright in the sky, it descended in front of the four witnesses. Craft was visible long enough to record video footage.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-12-29
Where
Fayetteville, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes or less
Geo
35.053, -78.878 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-fayetteville-nc-2021-3c4147
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

  • This is one of 79 reports logged in Fayetteville, NC.
  • This case is one of 94 North Carolina reports filed in 2021.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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