Carthage, NC, USA
Was on back road in country was talking to my daughter on cell phone and to my right out of no where two Triangle shaped ufos popped up
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-19
- Where
- Carthage, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.346, -79.417 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-carthage-nc-2018-8ecb2c
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 5 reports logged in Carthage, NC.
- This case is one of 108 North Carolina reports filed in 2018.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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