Southern Shores, NC, USA
Three flashing red lights in the sky, moved in a triangular formation, moved towards me, then away, then disappeared.
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 (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-24
- Where
- Southern Shores, NC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.139, -75.732 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-southern-shores-nc-2008-dbaf5c
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
- Southern Shores, NC has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 133 reports from North Carolina.
Report
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