South Topsail Beach, NC, USA
UFO SIGHTING!!!! DATE: MAY/28/2014 9:25PM LOCATION- South Topsail Beach/Surf City ( near the old watch tower) One orange glowing
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-28
- Where
- South Topsail Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- changing-over-south-topsail-beach-nc-2014-91fcbc
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
- South Topsail Beach, NC has 1 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%.
Report
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