Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Lime green triangular light, stationary, then moving, then vanished; while driving I-40
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-21
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-winston-salem-nc-2017-94858f
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
- Winston-Salem, NC has 48 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 145 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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