White Lake, NC, USA
I was driving down the NC 41 between White Lake and Tomahawk, North Carolina and I saw a bright green light strike the ground. It came
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-29
- Where
- White Lake, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 Seconds
- Geo
- 34.640, -78.484 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-white-lake-nc-2009-91dbb9
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
- White Lake, NC has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 125 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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