UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

Liberty, NC, USA

large orange bright light with a red aura around it hoovered above the tree line and then took off.

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-17
Where
Liberty, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
35.853, -79.572 · exact
Slug
light-over-liberty-nc-2011-1b509a
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Liberty, 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 days

Report

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