Southern Pines, NC, USA
Blue star burst that lasted about 2 seconds with a sonic boom, no smoke trail .Very clean light .
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-20
- Where
- Southern Pines, NC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2seconds
- Geo
- 35.174, -79.392 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-southern-pines-nc-2004-26319d
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
- Southern Pines, NC shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 84 reports came from North Carolina in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% 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.