CaseSphere1998
Wilmington, NC, USA
Approx 1 hour before dusk, 7 chrome-colored spheres appeared in the north/northwest sky. The objects didn't appear to be balloons and w
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-24
- Where
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.236, -77.946 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-wilmington-nc-1998-147a9c
In context
- Wilmington, NC has 93 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 40 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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