Raleigh, NC, USA
Large cube shaped object seen in Raleigh. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-03
- Where
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.772, -78.639 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-raleigh-nc-2017-f578ad
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Raleigh, NC reports filed in November 2017.
In context
- Raleigh, NC shows up 118 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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