Nags Head, NC, USA
Silent Orange Orbs Moving From South To North Near Jennette's Pier (MP 16.5) Over the Beach in Nags Head.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-03
- Where
- Nags Head, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.957, -75.624 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-nags-head-nc-2012-244cd6
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
- One of 26 documented reports from Nags Head, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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