Fuquay Varina, NC, USA
Very, very fast moving bright white object, not a shooting star. Diagnoal Movement.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-01
- Where
- Fuquay Varina, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 Minutes
- Geo
- 35.584, -78.800 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fuquay-varina-nc-2012-4df4ab
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
- Fuquay Varina, NC shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 249 reports came from North Carolina in 2012.
- 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.