CaseSphere2018

Sunset Beach, NC, USA

Sitting on the beach and high in the sky was a shiny object that stayed there until we left 2 hours later. it was not there today?

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-09
Where
Sunset Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 hours
Geo
33.881, -78.512 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sunset-beach-nc-2018-4e4e83
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

  • Sunset Beach, NC shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 108 reports came from North Carolina in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

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.