CaseFireball2015

Surf City, NC, USA

Round fireball object that hovered, and rose out of sight.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-06-05
Where
Surf City, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.427, -77.546 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-surf-city-nc-2015-5c7213
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

  • Surf City, NC has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 187 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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