CaseFireball2002
Matthews, NC, USA
Flaming Fireball sitting in the sky immoble over a house!
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-08
- Where
- Matthews, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- as long as i could see it
- Geo
- 35.117, -80.724 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-matthews-nc-2002-cc1c1b
In context
- Matthews, NC shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 67 reports came from North Carolina in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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