CaseFireball2003
Swannanoa, NC, USA
On Mon. Oct. 20, 2003 at approximately 8:45 PM I saw a fireball like object streak across sky in a east to west direction.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-10-20
- Where
- Swannanoa, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- aprox. 4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.598, -82.400 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-swannanoa-nc-2003-905b9d
In context
- Swannanoa, NC has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 82 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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