Winston-Salem, NC, USA
There was a large plane flying over maybe a 747. Tt wasn't very high maybe taking off. There was an object above it.
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 (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-17
- Where
- Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- About 4 minutes
- Geo
- 36.100, -80.244 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-winston-salem-nc-2022-56ac9a
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
- Winston-Salem, NC has 48 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 37 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 1.1% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure 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.