Marion, NC, USA
In 1967, I saw a flying/floating brown sphere. ((NUFORC Note: Report from retired Deputy Sheriff. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-01
- Where
- Marion, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.684, -82.009 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-marion-nc-1967-d2779d
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Marion, NC.
- This case is one of 5 North Carolina reports filed in 1967.
- Sphere craft made up 7.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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