CaseRectangle2002
Sunset Beach, NC, USA
My wife and I were sitting on the deck looking out at the ocean when we saw 1 red rectangle appear in the sky.it was quickly joined by
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-19
- Where
- Sunset Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30secs
- Geo
- 33.881, -78.512 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-sunset-beach-nc-2002-a60d8e
In context
- Sunset Beach, NC has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 67 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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