CaseLight2011

Pinnacle, NC, USA

Lights on & then shot straight across the sky at a slight downward angle & then gone w/ no fading of the light, within seconds, if that

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-11-08
Where
Pinnacle, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Just a matter of seconds,
Geo
36.329, -80.433 · exact
Slug
light-over-pinnacle-nc-2011-9fce47
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…

In context

  • Pinnacle, NC has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 195 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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