CaseLight2011

Holden Beach, NC, USA

Saw a number of bright orange flashing lights. They appeared and disappeared after few seconds. This happened a number of times for 4-

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-06-08
Where
Holden Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
33.914, -78.304 · exact
Slug
light-over-holden-beach-nc-2011-d03582
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

June 2011 was a busy month for Holden Beach, NC: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 34 reports logged in Holden Beach, NC.
  • This case is one of 195 North Carolina reports filed in 2011.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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