CaseUnknown2016

Kure Beach, NC, USA

First we saw a orange/gold light and then almost like a string of lights they appeared from left to right.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-13
Where
Kure Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
33.997, -77.907 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-kure-beach-nc-2016-df02ac
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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.
  • 219 reports came from North Carolina in 2016.

Report

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