CaseCircle2011

Emerald Isle, NC, USA

Orange light at Emerald Isle beach on July 14, 201.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-07-14
Where
Emerald Isle, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
34.678, -76.951 · exact
Slug
circle-over-emerald-isle-nc-2011-f71f5f
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

  • One of 20 documented reports from Emerald Isle, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 195 sightings in 2011.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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