Fletcher, NC, USA
Triangular craft with lights on each vertice spotted silently hovering 30-40 feet above a field off I-26 East at exit 54 in Fletcher.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-22
- Where
- Fletcher, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 35.431, -82.501 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fletcher-nc-2014-a6b336
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
- Fletcher, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 282 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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