CaseSphere2019

Surf City, NC, USA

Singular stationary orb splits into multiple orbs.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-25
Where
Surf City, NC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
34.427, -77.546 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-surf-city-nc-2019-aaadbc
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

  • Surf City, NC shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 162 reports came from North Carolina in 2019.
  • 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.