Flat Rock, NC, USA
I went outside to move my vehicle and noticed an odd bright light . At first I thought it was a plane waiting to land staying still for
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-13
- Where
- Flat Rock, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.271, -82.442 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-flat-rock-nc-2020-933271
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
- Flat Rock, NC has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 136 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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