CaseFireball1996
High Point, NC, USA
I was one the way home one night when a round object passed over head it looked like lava and fire around it
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-20
- Where
- High Point, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.956, -80.005 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-high-point-nc-1996-f7a692
In context
- High Point, NC shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from North Carolina in 1996.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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