Smithfield, NC, USA
I noticed 3 red lights flying low in the sky and in a straight formation moving across the night sky. ((anonymous report))
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-15
- Where
- Smithfield, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.508, -78.339 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-smithfield-nc-2017-ab6cef
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…
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Smithfield, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 145 sightings in 2017.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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