CaseFireball1998
Salisbury (E Ridge Rd.), NC, USA
Bright self illuminated object traveling SE to NW Changed direction at least twice at very high speed and at very sharp angles say at l
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-12
- Where
- Salisbury (E Ridge Rd.), NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20sec.
- Geo
- 35.671, -80.474 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salisbury-e-ridge-rd-nc-1998-19ae73
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Salisbury (E Ridge Rd.), NC.
- This case is one of 40 North Carolina reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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