CaseLight2001
Gastonia, NC, USA
METEOR APPEARING LIGHT HEADS STRAIGHT DOWN ACCELERATING IN SPEED AS IT CHANGED SLOWLY FROM WHITE TO NEON GREEN
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-29
- Where
- Gastonia, NC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 sec
- Geo
- 35.262, -81.187 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gastonia-nc-2001-c8f901
In context
- Gastonia, NC shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from North Carolina in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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