CaseSphere2022

Roxboro, NC, USA

I thought it was Jupiter but it was so bright and low in the horizon. Then it started to move, slowly but clearly moving towards me

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-03-26
Where
Roxboro, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
36.394, -78.983 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-roxboro-nc-2022-9bc24e
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 3 documented reports from Roxboro, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 37 sightings in 2022.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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