UFOMYST
CaseOther2006

Mars Hill, NC, USA

Bright objects in sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a moth, captured by the camera. PD))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-09-03
Where
Mars Hill, NC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
less than 1 min
Geo
35.827, -82.549 · exact
Slug
other-over-mars-hill-nc-2006-e3fe4a
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…

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In context

  • Mars Hill, NC has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 76 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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