CaseFireball2015
Tarawa Terrace, NC, USA
Orange looking fireball hovering over Camp Lejeune.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-03-17
- Where
- Tarawa Terrace, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-tarawa-terrace-nc-2015-eebb45
Wave
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 2 documented reports from Tarawa Terrace, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 187 sightings in 2015.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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