Sanford, NC, USA
Spherical ball of orange/yellow/white light changed shape and color to square then disc shape airplanes did come close and light would
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: 2250s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-25
- Where
- Sanford, NC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 30-45 minutes
- Geo
- 35.480, -79.180 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-sanford-nc-2020-cf29e5
Part of a wave
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 13 reports logged in Sanford, NC.
- This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
- Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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