Statesville, NC, USA
Observed one object come across the sky right to left with what I thought were white trail from fireworks looked again noticed a red li
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-06-23
- Where
- Statesville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 35.783, -80.887 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-statesville-nc-2019-4b01b1
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
- Statesville, NC shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 162 reports came from North Carolina in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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