Wrightsville Beach, NC, USA
multiple objects blinking different colors over ocean and 3 bright white lights scanning beach at ground level
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: 1650s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-23
- Where
- Wrightsville Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 25-30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.209, -77.796 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-wrightsville-beach-nc-2012-9a8e83
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
- Wrightsville Beach, NC shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 249 reports came from North Carolina in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.