UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Cherokee, NC, USA

Unknown white orb followed by approxmately 4 known objects

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-15
Where
Cherokee, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 min.
Geo
35.474, -83.315 · exact
Slug
light-over-cherokee-nc-1978-f25165
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Cherokee, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 8 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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