Hope Mills, NC, USA
A cylindrical object drops from the air, stops, hovers to the right and disappears.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-14
- Where
- Hope Mills, NC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 4 Minutes
- Geo
- 34.970, -78.945 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-hope-mills-nc-2005-71252b
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
- One of 9 documented reports from Hope Mills, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 106 sightings in 2005.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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