UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Charlotte, NC, USA

Starting on Tuesday, October 18th around 6:30pm in North Carolina, I noticed that just above the sunset was what I thought was a star..

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: 259200s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-20
Where
Charlotte, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 days
Geo
35.227, -80.843 · exact
Slug
light-over-charlotte-nc-2016-af5076
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 has 231 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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