CaseLight2001
Gastonia, NC, USA
bright light - traveling upwards, then left 90 degrees, then downward 90 degrees then disappear.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-01
- Where
- Gastonia, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 35.262, -81.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gastonia-nc-2001-889804
In context
- This is one of 38 reports logged in Gastonia, NC.
- This case is one of 63 North Carolina reports filed in 2001.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.