Fort Bragg, NC, USA
((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT). PD)) Bbright object enters atmosphere, turns into 2 objects
Report quality: Low35/100
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- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 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
- 2005-04-29
- Where
- Fort Bragg, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.139, -79.006 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fort-bragg-nc-2005-193ed5
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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
- Fort Bragg, NC shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from North Carolina in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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