Sphere over Pleasure Island, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Either the same one or a different one was spotted doing the same thing a little farther north near Carolina Sands. The object stayed right off the coast maybe 20ft off shore at the most. It disappeared out of my view just before sunrise, going north toward carolina beach and Wrightsville. I avoided it getting close to me by leaving the beach
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113206). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-31 → 2014-09-17