Raleigh, NC, USA
Saw strange light weaving and circling nearby lake
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-03-04
- Where
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 35.772, -78.639 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-raleigh-nc-2011-4c8768
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…
Local cluster
Raleigh, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2011.
In context
- One of 118 documented reports from Raleigh, 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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