CaseUnknown2017
Beaufort, NC, USA
Bright lights over Beaufort, NC.
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-13
- Where
- Beaufort, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Geo
- 34.718, -76.662 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-beaufort-nc-2017-33867d
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Beaufort, NC.
- This case is one of 145 North Carolina reports filed in 2017.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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