Hickory/Conover, NC, USA
Caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a glare, but then slowly faded into what looked like a cone shaped craft that gradually increased
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-10
- Where
- Hickory/Conover, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-hickory-conover-nc-2016-541b08
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
- Hickory/Conover, NC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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