CaseChanging2014

Surf City, NC, USA

Five orange glowing objects over Topsail Island, NC.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-06-18
Where
Surf City, NC, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
34.427, -77.546 · exact
Slug
changing-over-surf-city-nc-2014-b86f4d
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

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Surf City, NC.
  • This case is one of 282 North Carolina reports filed in 2014.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.