Oak Island, NC, USA
Lit up (orange in color) for a few seconds and then seemed to almost jump a distance in an instant. Light would fade and return several
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-18
- Where
- Oak Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Several seconds reoccurri
- Geo
- 33.917, -78.161 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oak-island-nc-2012-0a5623
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…
Local cluster
Oak Island, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2012.
In context
- One of 35 documented reports from Oak Island, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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