CaseSphere1989
Franklin, NC, USA
A perfect sphere, almost transparent , very transluscent , soundlessly floating above me
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-09-01
- Where
- Franklin, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15secs
- Geo
- 35.182, -83.382 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-franklin-nc-1989-8206a3
Wave
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Franklin, NC shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from North Carolina in 1989.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 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.