Browns Summit, NC, USA
Diamond shape, ruby red, long yellow "kite tail", moving upward at incredible speed.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-24
- Where
- Browns Summit, NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 36.213, -79.714 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-browns-summit-nc-2015-da930f
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
- Browns Summit, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 187 reports came from North Carolina in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.