Charlotte, NC, USA
Blue light object traveling like a flash light disappeared in to clouds.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-19
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-charlotte-nc-2016-5d7246
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 231 documented reports from Charlotte, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 219 sightings in 2016.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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