UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Monroe, NC, USA

1 orb fading in and out, in the sky.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-20
Where
Monroe, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
34.985, -80.550 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-monroe-nc-2016-c5c18a
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

  • Monroe, NC has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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