Hickory, NC, USA
3 red lights in an elongated triangle shape hovering over Lake Hickory. Dissipated after about 1 minute.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-04
- Where
- Hickory, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 35.733, -81.341 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hickory-nc-2015-eeeeaf
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
- One of 38 documented reports from Hickory, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 187 sightings in 2015.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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