CaseUnknown2008

Sanford, NC, USA

not sure what this was

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-03
Where
Sanford, NC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30 sec.
Geo
35.480, -79.180 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-sanford-nc-2008-6ef7ac
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

  • One of 13 documented reports from Sanford, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2008.

Report

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