Ocean Isle Beach, NC, USA
Strange Lights over Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 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
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 33.894, -78.427 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ocean-isle-beach-nc-2011-f19169
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
June 2011 was a busy month for Ocean Isle Beach, NC: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Ocean Isle 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 daysReport
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