Spruce Pine, NC, USA
The craft was moving faster than I have ever seen anything move in my entire life.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-25
- Where
- Spruce Pine, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 35.915, -82.065 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-spruce-pine-nc-2005-f116b8
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
- Spruce Pine, NC shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from North Carolina in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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