CaseDisk2013
Holden Beach, NC, USA
Bright orange saucer seen flying over Holden 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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-10
- Where
- Holden Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.914, -78.304 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-holden-beach-nc-2013-1e8cad
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
- Holden Beach, NC shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 198 reports came from North Carolina in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.