Charlotte, NC, USA
My first true UFO sighting!
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-21
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-charlotte-nc-2008-e0f7f7
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…
Local cluster
Charlotte, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2008.
In context
- One of 231 documented reports from Charlotte, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2008.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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