UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2005

Mebane, NC, USA

Black object floating across Spring morning sky over Mebane

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-05-15
Where
Mebane, NC, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
6 to 7 minutes
Geo
36.096, -79.267 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-mebane-nc-2005-edc7fc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Mebane, NC has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 106 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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