UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

St. Simons Island, GA, USA

Object appeared as a rounded bright light, stopping then moving rapidly (erratically) in any direction. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-09-27
Where
St. Simons Island, GA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 hrs?
Geo
31.151, -81.370 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-simons-island-ga-2011-e8e386
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…

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In context

  • St. Simons Island, GA shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from Georgia in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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