Blowing Rock, NC, USA
A dim light seen at night brightened into an extremely bright light, dimed down and disapeared.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-07-11
- Where
- Blowing Rock, NC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 minuts
- Geo
- 36.135, -81.678 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-blowing-rock-nc-2004-be1377
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
- Blowing Rock, NC has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 84 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.