Carolina Beach, NC, USA
Huge orange oval shaped bright light appeared over the ocean in the vicinity of the horizon. ((NUFORC Note: Mars. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2018-07-10
- Where
- Carolina Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 34.035, -77.894 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-carolina-beach-nc-2018-f14ab2
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
- Carolina Beach, NC has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2018 brought 108 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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