CaseFireball1960
Cherokee, NC, USA
meteor or fireball passage
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-02
- Where
- Cherokee, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- less than a minute?
- Geo
- 35.474, -83.315 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cherokee-nc-1960-58d5d0
In context
- Cherokee, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 3 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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