Flat Rock, NC, USA
I was taking a photo of the Harvest Moon at my home with my I-phone as it was rising out of the eastern sky just above the trees. It wa
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-10-20
- Where
- Flat Rock, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.271, -82.442 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-flat-rock-nc-2021-b32960
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 Flat Rock, NC.
- This case is one of 94 North Carolina reports filed in 2021.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2020s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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