UFOMYST
CaseFlash1997

Corapeake, NC, USA

There were three fire balls, one over top of each other, which had three smaller dots around each in a triangular shape.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-07
Where
Corapeake, NC, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
36.534, -76.576 · exact
Slug
flash-over-corapeake-nc-1997-cb9634
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Corapeake, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 25 sightings in 1997.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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