Concord, NC, USA
Went out for a late night cigarette. I saw what looked to be 3 different lights flashing above clouds. I grabbed my boyfriend and his m
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-15
- Where
- Concord, NC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- ~30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.409, -80.582 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-concord-nc-2019-8b8351
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
- Concord, NC shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 162 reports came from North Carolina in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.