UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Goldsboro, NC, USA

Witness to a large, smooth, silent sphere, kind of the color of the moon.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-07-15
Where
Goldsboro, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Maybe 1 Min.
Geo
35.385, -77.993 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-goldsboro-nc-1997-3ebaf6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Goldsboro, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 25 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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