CaseSphere1988
Clayton, NC, USA
Sphere shaped object about the size of a water tower, spinning rapidly.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-20
- Where
- Clayton, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 Minutes
- Geo
- 35.651, -78.456 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-clayton-nc-1988-8e7155
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Clayton, NC.
- This case is one of 5 North Carolina reports filed in 1988.
- Sphere craft made up 8.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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