Dallas, NC, USA
To whom it may concern; I want to report a UFO sighting I witnessed on Jan.24th 2009 at 9:30 EST.I live in Gaston County, N.C. out
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-24
- Where
- Dallas, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.317, -81.176 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-dallas-nc-2009-7fc80f
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Dallas, NC.
- This case is one of 125 North Carolina reports filed in 2009.
- Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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