Red Springs, NC, USA
Two Orange fire balls fly across the sky in Hoke County NC between the towns of Red Springs and Raeford
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-12
- Where
- Red Springs, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.815, -79.183 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-red-springs-nc-2020-4636c2
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
- Red Springs, NC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from North Carolina in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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