Fayetteville, NC, USA
these objects were seen the morning of hurricane hugo they were flying in a formation side by side when i first noticed them i thought
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-22
- Where
- Fayetteville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10minutes
- Geo
- 35.053, -78.878 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fayetteville-nc-1989-6efcaf
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- Fayetteville, NC has 79 sightings on file here.
- 1989 brought 12 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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