Rowland, NC, USA
Neon Green object appears from behind cloud and Shoots faster than lightning across 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 (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-27
- Where
- Rowland, NC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3-5 Seconds
- Geo
- 34.537, -79.291 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-rowland-nc-2007-87af6f
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Rowland, NC.
- This case is one of 111 North Carolina reports filed in 2007.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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