CaseFireball1998
Asheville, NC, USA
A MOVING RED BALL OF LIGHT.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (27 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-12
- Where
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30min
- Geo
- 35.601, -82.554 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-asheville-nc-1998-62f2a8
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Asheville, NC reports filed in October 1998.
In context
- Asheville, NC shows up 67 times across the archive.
- 40 reports came from North Carolina in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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