UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Ellerbe, NC, USA

I was driving approx. 5 miles northeast of Ellerbe headed toward Ellerbe from Derby( community). I had just came up from a low lying w

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-23
Where
Ellerbe, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
35.071, -79.761 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ellerbe-nc-2020-0411d0
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Ellerbe, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 136 sightings in 2020.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

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