CaseFireball2015

Salvo, NC, USA

Large and bright red fireball or light, silent and very fast moving N, and then nearly 90 degree westward turn over Pamlico Sound.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-31
Where
Salvo, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
35.540, -75.473 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-salvo-nc-2015-2f29e1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Salvo, NC.
  • This case is one of 187 North Carolina reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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