Marion, NC, USA
Observed 3 objects in a triangular formation at high altitude ie: 30-40K ft. which remained stationary for approximately 10 minutes in
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-25
- Where
- Marion, NC, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.684, -82.009 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-marion-nc-2019-eaf1ec
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
- One of 12 documented reports from Marion, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 162 sightings in 2019.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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