Oak Island, NC, USA
Red-orange circular objects seen in southern sky over ocean off of Oak Island, NC
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-27
- Where
- Oak Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.917, -78.161 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-oak-island-nc-2016-9a3f1b
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Oak Island, NC reports filed in April 2016.
In context
- Oak Island, NC shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 219 reports came from North Carolina in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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