kinston, NC, USA
very fast high altitude orange light/craft with enormous rainbow shaped contrail,like tail of a comet
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-05
- Where
- kinston, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.263, -77.582 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-kinston-nc-2020-798e5b
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
- kinston, NC shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from North Carolina in 2020.
Report
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