Waxhaw, NC, USA
Staring at sky when a bright green ball is seen S S/W about 187 degrees descending from sky in a falling action, trailing red sparks.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-18
- Where
- Waxhaw, NC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.925, -80.743 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-waxhaw-nc-2017-939489
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
- Waxhaw, NC shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.