UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Hickory, NC, USA

Blue-Green Flash in the North Carolina Sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-23
Where
Hickory, NC, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 sec
Geo
35.733, -81.341 · exact
Slug
flash-over-hickory-nc-2008-499b32
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Hickory, NC has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 133 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.