CaseLight2020
Marion, NC, USA
When what is naked to the eye reviles through photo
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-31
- Where
- Marion, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 35.684, -82.009 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-marion-nc-2020-bd062a
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
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Marion, NC.
- This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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