CaseChevron2017

Tryon, NC, USA

9 orange lights in a V shape. I think one light was blinking every half minute or so. ((anonymous report))

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-30
Where
Tryon, NC, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10+ minutes
Geo
35.340, -81.322 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-tryon-nc-2017-69f48e
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Tryon, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 145 sightings in 2017.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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