CaseCircle2017

Durham, NC, USA

Bright silver shape circle.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-08
Where
Durham, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
35.994, -78.899 · exact
Slug
circle-over-durham-nc-2017-5bb82c
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…

In context

  • This is one of 65 reports logged in Durham, 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.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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