Atlantic Beach, NC, USA
Looked north @ 50° and noticed a white Orange light. At first I thought it was an aircraft and didn't pay much notice.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-06
- Where
- Atlantic Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.699, -76.740 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-atlantic-beach-nc-2014-14ad4e
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
- Atlantic Beach, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from North Carolina in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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