CaseLight1990

Sleepy Creek, NC, USA

Mystery light attracts Air Force attention in NC.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-02-05
Where
Sleepy Creek, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 min.
Geo
35.258, -77.971 · exact
Slug
light-over-sleepy-creek-nc-1990-008582
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Sleepy Creek, NC has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1990 brought 5 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

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.