CaseFireball2013
Kure Beach, NC, USA
Orange glow disappears over kure beach, nc after 10-15 seconds.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-17
- Where
- Kure Beach, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.997, -77.907 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kure-beach-nc-2013-95c865
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
- Kure Beach, NC shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 198 reports came from North Carolina in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate 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.