Durham, NC, USA
Shiney Blob of Metal Hovering in Broad Daylight Durham NC
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-16
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-durham-nc-2008-357870
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Durham, NC reports filed in April 2008.
In context
- Durham, NC shows up 65 times across the archive.
- 133 reports came from North Carolina in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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