Flat Rock, NC, USA
They first appeared and stayed as 2 pairs as they flew higher and out of sight they all split the last one we could see seemed to gain
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-22
- Where
- Flat Rock, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.271, -82.442 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-flat-rock-nc-2014-710135
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
- Flat Rock, NC has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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