CaseFireball2002
Newport, NC, USA
Bright Light and Sonic Booms
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-12
- Where
- Newport, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 34.787, -76.859 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newport-nc-2002-7db77e
In context
- Newport, NC has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 67 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.