UFOMYST
CaseLight1978

Shelby, NC, USA

A bright light that turned into 2 lights and shot off in two separate directions.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-08
Where
Shelby, NC, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 mins
Geo
35.292, -81.536 · exact
Slug
light-over-shelby-nc-1978-4c09e8
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Shelby, NC has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 8 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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