UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Thaxton, MS, USA

Metal sphere rising out of woods scares wildlife and me

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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 (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-12
Where
Thaxton, MS, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.308, -89.178 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-thaxton-ms-2012-de1f8c
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

  • Thaxton, MS shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 45 reports came from Mississippi in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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