CaseFireball1999

Western North Carolina Mountains, NC, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Western North Carolina Mountains, NC, USA
Start: 1999-09-17
Location: Western North Carolina Mountains, NC, USA

I saw a brilliant flash in the southern sky going from East to West. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (68 characters)
Location could not be geocoded
No other reports from this city within 3 days
NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)

When: 1999-09-17
Where: Western North Carolina Mountains, NC, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 5 seconds
Geo: —
Slug: fireball-over-western-north-carolina-mountains-nc-1999-c8ae15

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Western North Carolina Mountains, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
North Carolina logged 53 sightings in 1999.
Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

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