Wilmington, NC, USA
Saw large bright grass green meteor? It went on at a downward trajectory, then became a gold fiery color and sputtered out. The longest
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-17
- Where
- Wilmington, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.236, -77.946 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-wilmington-nc-2014-902b06
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Wilmington, NC reports filed in July 2014.
In context
- Wilmington, NC shows up 93 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from North Carolina in 2014.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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