CaseDisk2020

Kings Mountain, NC, USA

Half dome silver metallic object hovering in the sky

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-14
Where
Kings Mountain, NC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
35.245, -81.341 · exact
Slug
disk-over-kings-mountain-nc-2020-f41c58
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

  • Kings Mountain, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 136 reports came from North Carolina in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate 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.