UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Oak Island, NC, USA

Lit up (orange in color) for a few seconds and then seemed to almost jump a distance in an instant. Light would fade and return several

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-18
Where
Oak Island, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Several seconds reoccurri
Geo
33.917, -78.161 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-oak-island-nc-2012-0a5623
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Oak Island, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2012.

In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Oak Island, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 249 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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