CaseOval2021

Pinehurst, NC, USA

((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no detailed information. PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • No witness text on file
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2021-01-13
Where
Pinehurst, NC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
35
Geo
35.195, -79.469 · exact
Slug
oval-over-pinehurst-nc-2021-0cb216
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…

In context

  • Pinehurst, NC shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from North Carolina in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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