UFOMYST
CaseSphere2014

Kill Devil Hills, NC, USA

Orange orb the color of fire lights up, expands in size, then shrinks back to nothingness and disappears, like an explosion in space.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-04
Where
Kill Devil Hills, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
36.031, -75.676 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-kill-devil-hills-nc-2014-57dac1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 21 reports logged in Kill Devil Hills, NC.
  • This case is one of 282 North Carolina reports filed in 2014.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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