CaseDisk2010

Indian Beach, NC, USA

Brilliant orange saucer shaped object high over ocean near Indian Beach, NC was observed and then reappeared appox. 15 minutes later.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-22
Where
Indian Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 - 8 seconds
Geo
34.687, -76.895 · exact
Slug
disk-over-indian-beach-nc-2010-610758
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Indian Beach, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 133 reports came from North Carolina in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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