CaseCircle2016
Surf City, NC, USA
Orange pulsating orb above beach.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-29
- Where
- Surf City, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.427, -77.546 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-surf-city-nc-2016-fe3592
Wave
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
- One of 13 documented reports from Surf City, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.