West Fenwick Island, DE, USA
I walked outside looked at southwest sky and saw this huge red orb, no sound at all. I called for my mom and we both saw it move backwa
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-20
- Where
- West Fenwick Island, DE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-west-fenwick-island-de-2020-a8761c
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
- West Fenwick Island, DE has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 27 reports from Delaware.
- The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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