Kitty Hawk, NC, USA
I actually took a photo of the crescent moon and didn’t notice the ufo until later
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-04
- Where
- Kitty Hawk, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.065, -75.706 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-kitty-hawk-nc-2022-bd7d2f
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
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Kitty Hawk, NC.
- This case is one of 37 North Carolina reports filed in 2022.
- Oval craft made up 3.5% of 2020s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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