UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Raleigh, NC, USA

20 flickering red lights in imperfect succession, floating up and vanishing into the clouds.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-26
Where
Raleigh, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.772, -78.639 · exact
Slug
light-over-raleigh-nc-2009-5e9fd8
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Raleigh, NC reports filed in October 2009.

In context

  • Raleigh, NC shows up 118 times across the archive.
  • 125 reports came from North Carolina in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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