UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2007

Emerald Isle, NC, USA

Three vertical rows of huge bright red lights observed in Emerald Isle, NC over the ocean under Mars in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-09-04
Where
Emerald Isle, NC, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
3 to 4 seconds
Geo
34.678, -76.951 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-emerald-isle-nc-2007-bf9336
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…

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In context

  • One of 20 documented reports from Emerald Isle, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 111 sightings in 2007.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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