Oak Island, NC, USA
Glowing orbs in ocean surf during thunderstorm.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-06-20
- Where
- Oak Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.917, -78.161 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-oak-island-nc-2014-ed82b9
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
5 reports came out of Oak Island, NC in June 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Oak Island, NC has 35 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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