Monroe, NC, USA
Coming home from grocery store on a brisk fall evening I noticed something in the sky to the NW of our location. Stopped car to take pi
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-10-25
- Where
- Monroe, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 34.985, -80.550 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-monroe-nc-1978-915c9c
Part of a wave
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In context
- Monroe, NC has 11 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 8 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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