CaseCircle2014

South Nags Head, NC, USA

Small red lights flying along coast of Nags Head and then all would disappear in same location -- no sound.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-22
Where
South Nags Head, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
Slug
circle-over-south-nags-head-nc-2014-c23f1b
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…

In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in South Nags Head, NC.
  • This case is one of 282 North Carolina reports filed in 2014.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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