Cherokee, NC, USA
UFO Report 06/09/2017 On Friday, June 9, 2017, my two friends and were at Smokemont Campground just outside Cherokee, NC in the Great
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-09
- Where
- Cherokee, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20-40 seconds
- Geo
- 35.474, -83.315 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cherokee-nc-2017-7bfbf1
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
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Cherokee, NC.
- This case is one of 145 North Carolina reports filed in 2017.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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