Hendersonville, NC, USA
We were walking in the front yard when we noticed red circles moving and stopping in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-29
- Where
- Hendersonville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.319, -82.461 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hendersonville-nc-2008-d3e92c
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 22 reports logged in Hendersonville, NC.
- This case is one of 133 North Carolina reports filed in 2008.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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