UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Raleigh, NC, USA

Walking around and was looking at the sky when i seen a red cirle shap in the air moving in the sky. I thought it was a plane of some s

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-13
Where
Raleigh, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
35.772, -78.639 · exact
Slug
circle-over-raleigh-nc-2016-a59152
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

  • Raleigh, NC has 118 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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