CaseUnknown2004
Advance, NC, USA
Strange UFO like sound coming from wooded & farmland area.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-24
- Where
- Advance, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.941, -80.409 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-advance-nc-2004-a7e38f
Wave
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
- Advance, NC shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 84 reports came from North Carolina in 2004.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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