Wilson, NC, USA
White, pill shaped, silent, wingless aircraft glided from north to south across the horizon in full daylight.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-26
- Where
- Wilson, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.721, -77.916 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-wilson-nc-2016-2eb0dc
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
- Wilson, NC has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
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.