Charlotte, NC, USA
Four orbs of light moving in a around each other consistantly. ((NUFORC Note: Possible advertising lights, we wonder? PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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 (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-18
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-charlotte-nc-2015-2d1c93
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
4 reports came out of Charlotte, NC in November 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Charlotte, NC has 231 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 187 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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