Hope Mills, NC, USA
Three family members witness orange light orbs flying through sky with no sound.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-22
- Where
- Hope Mills, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Geo
- 34.970, -78.945 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-hope-mills-nc-2017-83bcd1
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
- Hope Mills, NC shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from North Carolina in 2017.
Report
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