Kure Beach, NC, USA
Triangular Shape with a Reflection of the Stars behind it (cloaked or something)
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 (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-11
- Where
- Kure Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 - 4 secs
- Geo
- 33.997, -77.907 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-kure-beach-nc-2005-54f7fd
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
- Kure Beach, NC shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from North Carolina in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.