CaseFireball2003
Elkin, NC, USA
While siting on my front porch which I do nearly every night. I was watching Commercial Jet Liners pass back and forth. I know they mus
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-21
- Where
- Elkin, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 Seconds
- Geo
- 36.244, -80.848 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elkin-nc-2003-8b7c62
In context
- Elkin, NC shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 82 reports came from North Carolina in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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