Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Stationary bright white light
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-27
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-winston-salem-nc-2013-4b3482
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
3 reports came out of Winston-Salem, NC in October 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Winston-Salem, NC has 48 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 198 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cross reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.