UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Sunset Beach, NC, USA

BRIGHT, ORANGE LIGHT CAME IN DIRECTLY OFF THE OCEAN FLYING NORTH WEST. THE CRAFT WAS ABSOLUTELY SILENT AND FLEW BELOW THE LOW STORM CLO

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-03
Where
Sunset Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.881, -78.512 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sunset-beach-nc-2014-524db7
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Sunset Beach, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2014.

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Sunset Beach, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 282 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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