North Wilkesboro, NC, USA
On the evening of April 21, 2019 approximately at 22:25pm EST in a town at the base of the Appalachian mtns in North Carolina I looked
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: 1080s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-04-21
- Where
- North Wilkesboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 18 minutes
- Geo
- 36.158, -81.148 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-north-wilkesboro-nc-2019-b0759e
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 12 documented reports from North Wilkesboro, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 162 sightings in 2019.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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