UFOMYST
CaseFireball1977

Goldsboro, NC, USA

An orange glow in distant wooded area looked like a flower blooming into a large fire ball, then just faded .

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
Goldsboro, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
35.385, -77.993 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-goldsboro-nc-1977-56dbef
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Goldsboro, NC has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 6 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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