CaseFireball1968
Brevard, NC, USA
Three witnesses in Brevard, North Carolina reported a silent, red-orange glowing mass floating past them during the 1960s, with this sighting logged in October 1968 and lasting about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (197 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-10
- Where
- Brevard, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.233, -82.734 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-brevard-nc-1968-b8bb20
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Brevard, NC.
- This case is one of 6 North Carolina reports filed in 1968.
- Fireball craft made up 2.5% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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