Chapel Hill, NC, USA
3 white lights in a triangle formation pointing down with a green light below the white lights. No strobes just solid lights.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-23
- Where
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 35.913, -79.056 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-chapel-hill-nc-2012-f8e94e
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Chapel Hill, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
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.