CaseFireball2020
High Point, NC, USA
Bright light spotted in High Point NC over lake.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-17
- Where
- High Point, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.956, -80.005 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-high-point-nc-2020-6502fa
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
- High Point, NC has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 136 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.