CaseLight2004
Charlotte, NC, USA
Two motionless, intense, white lights around 100' above ground
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-15
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-charlotte-nc-2004-0372fc
Wave
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
- Charlotte, NC shows up 231 times across the archive.
- 84 reports came from North Carolina in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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