CaseFireball1999
Rocky Mount, NC, USA
my son and myself looked up to see a bright flash of light,i thought it was a plane crashing.It streakrd across the sky changing shape
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-11
- Where
- Rocky Mount, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30sec
- Geo
- 35.938, -77.791 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rocky-mount-nc-1999-55117f
In context
- Rocky Mount, NC has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 53 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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