Winston-Salem, NC, USA
a total of 7 flashing or glowing orbs apeared and then disapeared out of thin air, i was very much in shock for a few days.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-29
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-winston-salem-nc-2009-0aa1b3
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
- Winston-Salem, NC shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 125 reports came from North Carolina in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate 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.