Rodanthe (Outer Banks), NC, USA
Red Orange lights exchange light pulses. ((NUFORC Note: Report submitted by former USCG officer. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-21
- Where
- Rodanthe (Outer Banks), NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.594, -75.468 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-rodanthe-outer-banks-nc-2013-b2d09b
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 1 reports logged in Rodanthe (Outer Banks), NC.
- This case is one of 198 North Carolina reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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