UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Clayton, NC, USA

Flashing red,blue and white lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of a "twinkling" star, perhaps Arcturus, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-07-18
Where
Clayton, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1/2 hour
Geo
35.651, -78.456 · exact
Slug
circle-over-clayton-nc-2011-56d33b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Clayton, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 195 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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