Candor, NC, USA
@ approximately 8:30 PM when I noticed a large aircraft about the size of a small sedan hovering just above nearby trees.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-01
- Where
- Candor, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 35.295, -79.745 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-candor-nc-2016-bf90ce
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Candor, NC.
- This case is one of 219 North Carolina reports filed in 2016.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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