UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Holden Beach, NC, USA

3 bright lights in western sky at Holden Beach.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-08-20
Where
Holden Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
33.914, -78.304 · exact
Slug
circle-over-holden-beach-nc-2014-b5a43a
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Holden Beach, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2014.

In context

  • One of 34 documented reports from Holden Beach, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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