Burlington, NC, USA
A formation of brightly lit objects rise through the North Carolina night sky and disappear one by one.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-03-13
- Where
- Burlington, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.096, -79.438 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-burlington-nc-2021-802a4a
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
- Burlington, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 94 reports from North Carolina.
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.