UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Charlotte, NC, USA

white circular object falls in behind commercial liner-middle of day

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-03-21
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
circle-over-charlotte-nc-2008-a7810f
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Charlotte, NC in March 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Charlotte, NC has 231 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 133 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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