UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Mars Hill, NC, USA

Object was incredibly fast, never seen anything like it.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-10-23
Where
Mars Hill, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
35.827, -82.549 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mars-hill-nc-2014-b5f091
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

  • Mars Hill, NC has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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