Asheville, NC, USA
an object was sited around the asheville area that was travelling westward. it was brilliantly lit and appeared to be moving very fast.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-05-15
- Where
- Asheville, NC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- both events 1 minuite
- Geo
- 35.601, -82.554 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-asheville-nc-1997-e69337
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Asheville, NC has 67 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 25 reports from North Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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