UFOMYST
CaseLight2013

Charlotte, NC, USA

I went to my balcony at 4 am and looked over the city, there was a bright star, white in color that looked liked it was powering up and

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-14
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
9 seconds
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
light-over-charlotte-nc-2013-968d46
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 →

In context

  • Charlotte, NC shows up 231 times across the archive.
  • 198 reports came from North Carolina in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.