Wilmington, NC, USA
Seven white (sometimes orangish ) orbs spotted off coast of Wrightsville beach - One very active and rippling with colors.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-16
- Where
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 34.236, -77.946 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wilmington-nc-2014-d61d80
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 93 documented reports from Wilmington, 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%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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