Clayton, NC, USA
The craft was about the size of a small plane, but it had no wings or rigid shape. The craft was dark in color with two large round in
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-26
- Where
- Clayton, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 35.651, -78.456 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-clayton-nc-2017-3970af
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
- Clayton, NC shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% 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.