UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Hickory, NC, USA

Obj seemed to be a unusually bright light, what I thought might be the north star, but 3 times as bright. ((NUFORC Note: Venus? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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 (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-01-26
Where
Hickory, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
A few hours
Geo
35.733, -81.341 · exact
Slug
light-over-hickory-nc-2017-160dfe
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

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In context

  • Hickory, NC shows up 38 times across the archive.
  • 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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