CaseTeardrop2020

Salisbury, NC, USA

Saw spear or teardrop structure streaming across the sky with a vapor trail and cast off glare from the rising sun. The object was head

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-06-13
Where
Salisbury, NC, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
35.671, -80.474 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-salisbury-nc-2020-d5bbfc
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

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Salisbury, NC.
  • This case is one of 136 North Carolina reports filed in 2020.
  • Teardrop craft made up 0.6% of 2020s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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