CaseSphere1960
Goldsboro, NC, USA
In 1960, a witness near Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, reported a spherical craft in the sky, visible for about two minutes.
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 (154 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-07-15
- Where
- Goldsboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.385, -77.993 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-goldsboro-nc-1960-9dc7bb
In context
- Goldsboro, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 3 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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