Gastonia nc, NC, USA
i was driving to work, all of sudden this big doughnut shape craft appears in the sky, it was in a slow motion for about 4 seconds than
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-16
- Where
- Gastonia nc, NC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-gastonia-nc-nc-2020-619d69
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 Gastonia nc, NC.
- This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
- Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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