CaseDiamond2016
Kure Beach, NC, USA
Orange lights over Kure Beach, 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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-06-12
- Where
- Kure Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.997, -77.907 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-kure-beach-nc-2016-772210
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
- Kure Beach, NC has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
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.