CaseSphere2018

Grand Forks, ND, USA

Large green sphere appeared, hovered then banked downward and disappeared. ((anonymous report))

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-02-15
Where
Grand Forks, ND, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
47.925, -97.033 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-grand-forks-nd-2018-df2216
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 19 documented reports from Grand Forks, ND in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Dakota logged 8 sightings in 2018.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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