High Point, NC, USA
Balls of light appearing in sky, seemingly interacting with larger light.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-22
- Where
- High Point, NC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 35.956, -80.005 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-high-point-nc-2016-d9be72
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
- High Point, NC has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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