CaseFireball2009
High Point, NC, USA
Multiple round, bright orange objects flew above High Point, NC
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-27
- Where
- High Point, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3hrs
- Geo
- 35.956, -80.005 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-high-point-nc-2009-6908c7
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- High Point, NC shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 125 reports came from North Carolina in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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