CaseFireball1998
Sophia, NC, USA
A huge blue, orange ball shooshed in front of us
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-10
- Where
- Sophia, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.823, -79.861 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sophia-nc-1998-521cab
In context
- Sophia, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 40 reports came from North Carolina in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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