Ocean Isle Beach, NC, USA
Strange lights over Ocean Isle Beach
Report quality: Moderate60/100
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
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-28
- Where
- Ocean Isle Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- I hour
- Geo
- 33.894, -78.427 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ocean-isle-beach-nc-2011-dc97c9
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Ocean Isle Beach, NC in June 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Ocean Isle Beach, NC has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 195 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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