CaseFireball2002
Banner Elk, NC, USA
It was orange it was too slow to be a shooting star and had no flashing lights.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-01
- Where
- Banner Elk, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.163, -81.871 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-banner-elk-nc-2002-406f6a
In context
- Banner Elk, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 67 reports came from North Carolina in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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