CaseChanging2014

Catawba, NC, USA

4-6 lights changing shape and size all connected with a larger center light.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-14
Where
Catawba, NC, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
35.707, -81.076 · exact
Slug
changing-over-catawba-nc-2014-58f8c2
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

  • Catawba, NC has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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