Raleigh, NC, USA
Bright light/hovering craft seen in raleigh near state fair around midnight.
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 (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-18
- Where
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 35.772, -78.639 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-raleigh-nc-2009-54357f
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…
Local cluster
Raleigh, NC logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2009.
In context
- One of 118 documented reports from Raleigh, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 125 sightings in 2009.
Report
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