Burnsville, NC, USA
Glowing silverish sphere type object, with bright swirling, varying illumination. Sphere appears quite often.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-02
- Where
- Burnsville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Up to 30 min
- Geo
- 35.917, -82.301 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-burnsville-nc-2012-0de93f
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
- Burnsville, NC shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 249 reports came from North Carolina in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.