Statesville, NC, USA
Tri-colored light in eastern sky attracts attention of star gazer near midnight in Statesville, North Carolina.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-03
- Where
- Statesville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 35.783, -80.887 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-statesville-nc-2005-7ea814
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
- Statesville, NC has 15 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 106 reports from North Carolina.
Report
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