CaseFireball1998

Benson (Just outside of), NC, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Benson (Just outside of), NC, USA
Start: 1998-03-07
Location: Benson (Just outside of), NC, USA

A comnet shaped object suddenly appeared in the sky and appeared to move across the sky slowly until it turned away from me and disappe

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-03-07
Where: Benson (Just outside of), NC, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 2 minutes
Geo: 35.382, -78.549 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-benson-just-outside-of-nc-1998-9ae51a

In context

Benson (Just outside of), NC shows up 1 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%.

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