CaseFireball2003
Clayton, NC, USA
witness to the too close meteor in durham, nc. : meteor or ufo?
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
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.