UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Richards Bay (South Africa), South Africa

Bright orange object that turned pitch black moving at a constant speed in a Northern direction (South Africa).

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 (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-25
Where
Richards Bay (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
-28.783, 32.038 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-richards-bay-south-africa-2012-a7bb6e
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Richards Bay (South Africa), South Africa in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Africa logged 26 sightings in 2012.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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