Charlotte, NC, USA
Multiple lights and strange star like objects seen.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-29
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 30-60 minutes
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-charlotte-nc-2014-1aa03c
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…
Local cluster
6 reports came out of Charlotte, NC in July 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Charlotte, NC has 231 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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