UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

Southport, NC, USA

Orange oval bright light in the sky that kept moving into different spots in the southern sky then went into the cloud.

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-18
Where
Southport, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
33.918, -78.019 · exact
Slug
oval-over-southport-nc-2012-48288e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Southport, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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