UFOMYST
CaseCircle2019

Gastonia, NC, USA

Well over a hundred little blinking dots was heading South. They were in a scattered formation across the sky. They were fast.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-01-04
Where
Gastonia, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
35.262, -81.187 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gastonia-nc-2019-368515
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…

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In context

  • One of 38 documented reports from Gastonia, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 162 sightings in 2019.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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