Emerald Isle, NC, USA
Bright Red/green squarish lights (6) flying one at a time over Emerald Island from sea to sound side towards mainland
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-24
- Where
- Emerald Isle, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.678, -76.951 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-emerald-isle-nc-2016-9451d7
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
- Emerald Isle, NC shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 219 reports came from North Carolina in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.