Oak Island, NC, USA
Mostly orange-red circular objects appeared in southern sky over ocean near Oak Island, NC.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-26
- Where
- Oak Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.917, -78.161 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-oak-island-nc-2016-836ada
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…
Local cluster
April 2016 was a busy month for Oak Island, NC: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Oak Island, NC.
- This case is one of 219 North Carolina reports filed in 2016.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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