UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Wilmington, NC, USA

Vehicle sized UFO at the same height as busy stoplight, unlike anything we had ever seen, defied laws of physics as I know it

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-01
Where
Wilmington, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
34.236, -77.946 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-wilmington-nc-2017-c8edcb
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Wilmington, NC shows up 93 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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