UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Hillsborough, NC, USA

At 1314hrs until 1317 hrs on the date provided I saw 5 circular lights in straight formation with 2 lights directly under the 5. I repo

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-23
Where
Hillsborough, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.075, -79.100 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hillsborough-nc-2020-416769
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

  • Hillsborough, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 136 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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