Mebane, NC, USA
A orange glowing object changed direction in the sky without making a sound, then went into "hyper speed".
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 (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-19
- Where
- Mebane, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- one minute or so
- Geo
- 36.096, -79.267 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mebane-nc-2010-1cad9a
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 13 documented reports from Mebane, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 133 sightings in 2010.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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