UFOMYST
CaseLight2011

Sanford, NC, USA

Huge Whitish light

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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-08-19
Where
Sanford, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
8-10 minutes
Geo
35.480, -79.180 · exact
Slug
light-over-sanford-nc-2011-e29435
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 13 reports logged in Sanford, NC.
  • This case is one of 195 North Carolina reports filed in 2011.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.