Duck, NC, USA
Two distinct red lights observed NNE of Duck within 3 - 4 minutes of one another with dramatic speed and direction changes.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-23
- Where
- Duck, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-7 minutes
- Geo
- 36.170, -75.755 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-duck-nc-2012-ad0835
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
- Duck, NC has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 249 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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