UFOMYST
CaseOther2020

Wilmington, NC, USA

Went out to my car in the middle of the night to have a cigarette (feels safer being in the car) once i was done, i felt nervous going

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-04-18
Where
Wilmington, NC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
34.236, -77.946 · exact
Slug
other-over-wilmington-nc-2020-b0a518
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Wilmington, NC in April 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Wilmington, NC has 93 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 136 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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