CaseSphere2016
Hertford, NC, USA
Green flame with tail in Hertford, NC-was it a meteor?
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-16
- Where
- Hertford, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.190, -76.466 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-hertford-nc-2016-61dff5
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Hertford, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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