UFOMYST
CaseOval2020

Emerald Isle, NC, USA

At approximately 0100 hrs, Jan 17, 2020 I observed a dark amber/orange orb hovering approximately 200-300 ft off the surface of the oce

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-17
Where
Emerald Isle, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 hours
Geo
34.678, -76.951 · exact
Slug
oval-over-emerald-isle-nc-2020-cf5c9c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Emerald Isle, NC.
  • This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
  • Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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