Mt. Gilead, NC, USA
Saw what I believe were 3 UFO's in sky over Lake Tillery,NC on morning of 12/29/08 about 5am.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-29
- Where
- Mt. Gilead, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.215, -80.002 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-mt-gilead-nc-2008-19a102
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
- Mt. Gilead, NC has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 133 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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