CaseSphere2004
Goldsboro, NC, USA
Silvery grey sphere was spotted over wayne county in North Carolina
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 (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-10
- Where
- Goldsboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 21/2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.385, -77.993 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-goldsboro-nc-2004-91b49e
Wave
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 18 reports logged in Goldsboro, NC.
- This case is one of 84 North Carolina reports filed in 2004.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.