CaseSphere1969
Rocky Mount, NC, USA
In July 1969, a sphere-shaped object was reported over Rocky Mount, North Carolina, reportedly scorching the tops of nearby trees during a sighting lasting about fifteen minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-07-27
- Where
- Rocky Mount, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 MINUTES
- Geo
- 35.938, -77.791 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-rocky-mount-nc-1969-82936e
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In context
- Rocky Mount, NC has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1969 brought 1 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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