Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Bright white light flashing repeatedly in the same area of the sky for thirty to forty minutes.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-03-31
- Where
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 0:00-0:45
- Geo
- 35.913, -79.056 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-chapel-hill-nc-2010-5be4bd
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Chapel Hill, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2010.
- Cone sightings ran at 0.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.4%).
Report
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