Ocracoke Island, NC, USA
((HOAX)) Extremely fast,low flying,perfect black triangle,lighted at corners and eeriliy silent.
Report quality: Low17/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2006-06-01
- Where
- Ocracoke Island, NC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.132, -75.905 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ocracoke-island-nc-2006-e147d3
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Ocracoke Island, NC.
- This case is one of 76 North Carolina reports filed in 2006.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.