CaseCircle2014

Louisburg, NC, USA

Observed a bright white star in the north sky start to move north. ((NUFORC Note: Possible satellite?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2014-02-14
Where
Louisburg, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
36.099, -78.301 · exact
Slug
circle-over-louisburg-nc-2014-c81fa9
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 12 documented reports from Louisburg, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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