Bessemer City, NC, USA
3 round white lights moving in a circle, and they all met in the middle of the rotation. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-06-08
- Where
- Bessemer City, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.285, -81.284 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bessemer-city-nc-2017-02c824
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
- Bessemer City, NC has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 145 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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