Kings Mountain, NC, USA
Up in the hills of Kings Mountain. UFO sighting on hwy 161 between 7pm and 7:30 pm EST. Bright orange oblong shaped aircraft.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-10-29
- Where
- Kings Mountain, NC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 35.245, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-kings-mountain-nc-2010-b71f5e
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
- Kings Mountain, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 133 reports came from North Carolina in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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