Durham, NC, USA
Moon in Western sky with light at bottom pictured with 12 white bright lights in shape of 1/2 Grey UFO.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-14
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-durham-nc-2015-e6ac0b
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
- Durham, NC has 65 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 187 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.