Black Creek, NC, USA
A series of bright firework-like lights apparently exploded and backlit a large object
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-25
- Where
- Black Creek, NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.635, -77.933 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-black-creek-nc-2017-511728
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 1 documented reports from Black Creek, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 145 sightings in 2017.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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