Spruce Pine, NC, USA
large neon green ball with greenand white tail shooting across sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-02-21
- Where
- Spruce Pine, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 35.915, -82.065 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spruce-pine-nc-2007-929076
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Spruce Pine, NC.
- This case is one of 111 North Carolina reports filed in 2007.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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