UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Mount Airy, NC, USA

((HOAX??)) Blue light over Mount Airy, NC.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-01-14
Where
Mount Airy, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
36.499, -80.607 · exact
Slug
light-over-mount-airy-nc-2016-f58d3b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Mount Airy, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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