Durham, NC, USA
I was driving Eastbound on the interstate, when I looked to my left and sighted five blue glowing lights in a chevron, or V-shaped form
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-05
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-durham-nc-2014-b1f1e8
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
- One of 65 documented reports from Durham, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
- Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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