Topsail Island, NC, USA
Looking of the deck of our oceanfront beach house we saw multiple orange orbs in the ski right over the horizon. One orb broke into two
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-30
- Where
- Topsail Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Geo
- 34.470, -77.472 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-topsail-island-nc-2013-f99515
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
- Topsail Island, NC shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 198 reports came from North Carolina in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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