CaseFireball2003

Clayton, NC, USA

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Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-10-20
Where
Clayton, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
brief
Geo
35.651, -78.456 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-clayton-nc-2003-82d73e

In context

  • Clayton, NC shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from North Carolina in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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