UFOMYST
CaseOther1989

Highlands, NC, USA

Large low altitude object seen by many in NC mountains as lights went out.

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 (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-15
Where
Highlands, NC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.053, -83.199 · exact
Slug
other-over-highlands-nc-1989-126cda
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Highlands, NC.
  • This case is one of 12 North Carolina reports filed in 1989.
  • Other craft made up 9.1% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.