Asheville, NC, USA
At 12:49 AM, I heard two loud booms. In about two seconds, I heard another loud boom. This process was repeated until I heard four more
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-04-28
- Where
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.601, -82.554 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-asheville-nc-2018-f1cae8
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
- Asheville, NC has 67 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 108 reports from North Carolina.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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