CaseLight2011
Gastonia, NC, USA
Saw 2 low flying objects with bright lights, no noise..
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-25
- Where
- Gastonia, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- 35.262, -81.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gastonia-nc-2011-461401
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Gastonia, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 195 sightings in 2011.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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