Wilmington, NC, USA
A bright white, oval sighting that moved in a manner unlike any aircraft I have seen in the area that unexplainably disappeared.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-09
- Where
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.236, -77.946 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-wilmington-nc-2011-9a6c0a
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 93 reports logged in Wilmington, NC.
- This case is one of 195 North Carolina reports filed in 2011.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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