Salisbury, NC, USA
Saw spear or teardrop structure streaming across the sky with a vapor trail and cast off glare from the rising sun. The object was head
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-06-13
- Where
- Salisbury, NC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.671, -80.474 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-salisbury-nc-2020-d5bbfc
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 22 reports logged in Salisbury, NC.
- This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.6% of 2020s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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