Asheville, NC, USA
Bright oval-shaped object flying at considerable height in the night sky
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-14
- Where
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.601, -82.554 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-asheville-nc-2021-90b5bd
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
- Asheville, NC shows up 67 times across the archive.
- 94 reports came from North Carolina in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.