UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Raleigh, NC, USA

we saw 2 objects in the sky one night flashing colors and not moving. ((NUFORC Note: Possible "twinkling" star, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-09-05
Where
Raleigh, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
35.772, -78.639 · exact
Slug
circle-over-raleigh-nc-2010-1196e7
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Raleigh, NC in September 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Raleigh, NC has 118 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 133 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

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