UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Hickory, NC, USA

I was outside when I saw a red "fireball" moving in an oval pattern.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-10-16
Where
Hickory, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3minutes
Geo
35.733, -81.341 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hickory-nc-1997-2c96d1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Hickory, NC has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 25 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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