Wake Forest, NC, USA
Pulling in my driveway, my daughter pointed it out, super fast, crossed sky in a few seconds heading East. Appeared to be crashing to E
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-08
- Where
- Wake Forest, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 35.980, -78.510 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wake-forest-nc-2016-8bade8
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
- Wake Forest, NC has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 219 reports from North Carolina.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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