Durham, NC, USA
Diamond-shaped silent object hovers and passes overhead.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 4800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-07
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 80 minutes
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-durham-nc-2015-23ff19
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Durham, NC in January 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Durham, NC has 65 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 187 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.