Oak Island, NC, USA
Orange Orb and blinking lights.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-06-17
- Where
- Oak Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.917, -78.161 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-oak-island-nc-2014-44747b
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
Oak Island, NC logged 5 reports in the single month of June 2014.
In context
- One of 35 documented reports from Oak Island, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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