CaseUnknown2008

Mebane, NC, USA

strange moving light in the night sky above Mebane, North Carolina

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-06
Where
Mebane, NC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
approx 2 minutes
Geo
36.096, -79.267 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mebane-nc-2008-6e7f96
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Mebane, NC shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 133 reports came from North Carolina in 2008.

Report

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