UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2011

Linville, NC, USA

Orange balls of light seen flying over Avery County, NC.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-02
Where
Linville, NC, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
1.5 hours
Geo
36.067, -81.870 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-linville-nc-2011-f33f86
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Linville, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 195 sightings in 2011.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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