CaseFormation1996
Charlotte, NC, USA
1st night saw rectangle rimmed with lights, gliding, then next night, along same path, saw 4 orbs, rotating, creating geometric shapes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-15
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 min, first, then 5 mins
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-charlotte-nc-1996-61a020
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In context
- Charlotte, NC shows up 231 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from North Carolina in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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