Emerald Isle, NC, USA
Over ocean, first looked like orange star then got larger and simply faded away.Then five more apeared two rectangle shaped with t
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-11
- Where
- Emerald Isle, NC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.678, -76.951 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-emerald-isle-nc-2013-b2c4cc
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…
Local cluster
September 2013 was a busy month for Emerald Isle, NC: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 20 reports logged in Emerald Isle, NC.
- This case is one of 198 North Carolina reports filed in 2013.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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