Apex (physically in Cary), NC, USA
Huge diamond shaped aircraft moved very slowly, hovered, then went below tree line. Red/green non-flashing lights. Low quiet hum.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-11-08
- Where
- Apex (physically in Cary), NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.733, -78.850 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-apex-physically-in-cary-nc-2018-e5e47f
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
- Apex (physically in Cary), NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from North Carolina in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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