Hickory, NC, USA
I was taking my daughter to a friend's house when we saw several orange lights above the lake. They looked to be several thousand fee.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-31
- Where
- Hickory, NC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-hickory-nc-2013-b82724
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
- This is one of 38 reports logged in Hickory, NC.
- This case is one of 198 North Carolina reports filed in 2013.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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