Surf City, NC, USA
Large glowing yellow round star shape floating and moving above the beach and shore.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-02
- Where
- Surf City, NC, USA
- Shape
- Star
- Duration
- 2 minutes?
- Geo
- 34.427, -77.546 · exact
- Slug
- star-over-surf-city-nc-2022-8ecd0f
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
- Surf City, NC shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 37 reports came from North Carolina in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.