UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Winston-Salem, NC, USA

My grandma and I were going down 52b and at 1st we saw a super bright light and were first though that it was a plan but as we got clos

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
2016-02-06
Where
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
36.100, -80.244 · exact
Slug
circle-over-winston-salem-nc-2016-8398b8
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

  • Winston-Salem, NC shows up 48 times across the archive.
  • 219 reports came from North Carolina in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 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.