Old Fort/Morganton (between), NC, USA
Marion to Morganton, North Carolina: On I-40 10/26/2014:large white circular orb overhead, and lost time.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-26
- Where
- Old Fort/Morganton (between), NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.629, -82.181 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-old-fort-morganton-between-nc-2014-38298b
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
- Old Fort/Morganton (between), NC has 2 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 daysReport
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