CaseLight2016

Pittsboro, NC, USA

We did not get a very good look at this object. I am only reporting this in case someone who got a better look does also so that their

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-23
Where
Pittsboro, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
35.720, -79.177 · exact
Slug
light-over-pittsboro-nc-2016-5eb6d5
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…

In context

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Pittsboro, NC.
  • This case is one of 219 North Carolina reports filed in 2016.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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