Wilson, NC, USA
Riding us 42 east,notice a large object worth red,orange, white lights, heard no noise,later it moved further away,then a white round l
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-16
- Where
- Wilson, NC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- Hour
- Geo
- 35.721, -77.916 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-wilson-nc-2018-ce17a5
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
- Wilson, NC shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 108 reports came from North Carolina in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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