Garner, NC, USA
Saw UFO between a double-rainbow outside a restaurant. ((NUFORC Note: Possible lens flare, we suspect. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 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
- 2016-08-06
- Where
- Garner, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.711, -78.614 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-garner-nc-2016-050cfa
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
- Garner, NC has 20 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.