Emerald Isle, NC, USA
UFO over Emerald Isle, NC 7/22/2010
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-22
- Where
- Emerald Isle, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 34.678, -76.951 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-emerald-isle-nc-2010-441b36
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…
Local cluster
Emerald Isle, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2010.
In context
- One of 20 documented reports from Emerald Isle, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2010.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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