CaseFireball2008
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Bright descending burst of light.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-14
- Where
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 Sec
- Geo
- 35.913, -79.056 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chapel-hill-nc-2008-68cada
Wave
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Chapel Hill, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2008.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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