Greensboro, NC, USA
Round object maybe 5 miles away with an altitude about the same as a plane and has been stationary for about 20 min so far.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-27
- Where
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 36.073, -79.792 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-greensboro-nc-2010-f6cb75
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…
Local cluster
Greensboro, NC logged 4 reports in the single month of January 2010.
In context
- One of 102 documented reports from Greensboro, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2010.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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