UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Holden Beach, NC, USA

Orange bright flash then a strange formation of lights seen on the beach

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-18
Where
Holden Beach, NC, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
33.914, -78.304 · exact
Slug
formation-over-holden-beach-nc-2012-d1dc4d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Holden Beach, NC in July 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Holden Beach, NC has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 249 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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