Willow Spring, NC, USA
Red orb/sphere with loud roaring noise then quiet while dancing in the sky
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-05-28
- Where
- Willow Spring, NC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Geo
- 34.670, -112.863 · fallback
- Slug
- sphere-over-willow-spring-nc-2015-614204
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
- Willow Spring, NC has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 187 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure 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.