Browns Summit, NC, USA
Phenomenal sighting of 12 orange balls of light in the night sky, as they slowly combined and faded away!
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-17
- Where
- Browns Summit, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 36.213, -79.714 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-browns-summit-nc-2017-993f45
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
- Browns Summit, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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