Wrightsville Beach, NC, USA
Glowing disk with single beam sighted at Wrightsville Beach 9/19/09 at 7:50p.m. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- Wrightsville Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.209, -77.796 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-wrightsville-beach-nc-2009-33106f
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Wrightsville Beach, NC.
- This case is one of 125 North Carolina reports filed in 2009.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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