UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Fayetteville, NC, USA

UFO seen hovering South East 4 to 6 miles from Simmons Air field near Fort Bragg. Roughly between 15000 to 20000 feet in altitude.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-30
Where
Fayetteville, NC, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
Currently
Geo
35.053, -78.878 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-fayetteville-nc-2016-63458b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 79 documented reports from Fayetteville, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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