Hickory, NC, USA
the object wasn't moving then moved disaperd and reapered when it changed shape the went into clouds
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-08
- Where
- Hickory, NC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-hickory-nc-2005-3c0971
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
- Hickory, NC has 38 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 106 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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