Lake Wiley, NC, USA
My little brother and I saw object like fireballs for about 1:00 flying over lake Wiley.
Report quality: Low39/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-19
- Where
- Lake Wiley, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1:00
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-wiley-nc-2017-229c41
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Lake Wiley, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 145 sightings in 2017.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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