CaseSphere1981
Durham, NC, USA
Big as a house & made no sound
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-05-20
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-durham-nc-1981-b8bee5
In context
- Durham, NC has 65 sightings on file here.
- 1981 brought 5 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.