Black Mountain, NC, USA
On our way home we saw a large object with several lights stationary in the sky.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-04-18
- Where
- Black Mountain, NC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 35.618, -82.321 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-black-mountain-nc-2007-da0b65
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
- Black Mountain, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 111 reports came from North Carolina in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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