CaseSphere2020

Winston-Salem, NC, USA

I saw a very bright orange/red/pinkish sphere to the northeast of my house. At first, I thought it was a planet until I realized it wa

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-13
Where
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
36.100, -80.244 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-winston-salem-nc-2020-79f8b6
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…

In context

  • This is one of 48 reports logged in Winston-Salem, NC.
  • This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
  • Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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