CaseFireball2008
Havelock, NC, USA
Bright, white, extremely large meteor-like object seen in night sky.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-16
- Where
- Havelock, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- >1 second
- Geo
- 34.879, -76.901 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-havelock-nc-2008-a57921
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 10 documented reports from Havelock, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2008.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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