CaseCircle1999
Rocky Mount, NC, USA
I thought I saw a parachute or a balloon coming down from a heavy bank of clouds, then saw it zig-zag falling-leaf fashion.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-22
- Where
- Rocky Mount, NC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1min.
- Geo
- 35.938, -77.791 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rocky-mount-nc-1999-a1fad2
In context
- Rocky Mount, NC has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 53 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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