CaseFireball2017

Knightdale, NC, USA

4 horizontal lights in the sky... stationary, then zig zag with tail, finally still again. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-10-13
Where
Knightdale, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Geo
35.788, -78.481 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-knightdale-nc-2017-1e94af
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Knightdale, NC.
  • This case is one of 145 North Carolina reports filed in 2017.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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