Ocean Isle, NC, USA
It was around 11:30 pm and my husband and I had walked to the edge of the ocean front walk way. We both noticed a large red glowing fi
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-29
- Where
- Ocean Isle, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.894, -78.427 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ocean-isle-nc-2004-6d420e
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
- One of 8 documented reports from Ocean Isle, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 84 sightings in 2004.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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