CaseTeardrop1999
Marion, NC, USA
huge bright star moving from left to right, then turned to tear drop and then went dull and moved over our lake home. strange but true.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-24
- Where
- Marion, NC, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 45 min.
- Geo
- 35.684, -82.009 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-marion-nc-1999-d1382f
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Marion, NC.
- This case is one of 53 North Carolina reports filed in 1999.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 1990s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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