Raleigh, NC, USA
Bright light flash and satellite like movements in night sky over NW Raleigh, North Carolina on the evening of February 19, 2014.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-19
- Where
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 35.772, -78.639 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-raleigh-nc-2014-c5ced3
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Raleigh, NC reports filed in February 2014.
In context
- Raleigh, NC shows up 118 times across the archive.
- 282 reports came from North Carolina in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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