Indian Trail, NC, USA
a bright red light seen to grow in size and intensity, then vanish. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Iridium satellite flare?? PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (67 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
- 2007-11-09
- Where
- Indian Trail, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about 2 seconds
- Geo
- 35.077, -80.669 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-indian-trail-nc-2007-c0b5d6
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
- Indian Trail, NC has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 111 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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