CaseFireball1985
Wilkesboro, NC, USA
We were fishing at the spillway at W Kerr Scott Dam in June I can't remember the date 1985. There was a large hill directly in front
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-06-01
- Where
- Wilkesboro, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.146, -81.161 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wilkesboro-nc-1985-e3145d
In context
- Wilkesboro, NC has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1985 brought 9 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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