Granite Quarry, NC, USA
Driving south on hwy 52 in Granite Quarry NC. 11:00am looked to the left and noticed a round shiney object 2 miles away and a few miles
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-28
- Where
- Granite Quarry, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.612, -80.447 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-granite-quarry-nc-2020-84e052
Part of a wave
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
- Granite Quarry, NC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 136 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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