Asheville, NC

A traffic spike was detected across the western North Carolina mountains south of Asheville on the evening of March 23. No SpaceX launch, industrial explosion, or published fireball report matches the time and location. The region saw a bright meteor over Metro Detroit around 9:30 PM EDT the same night, and Q1 2026 has been an unusually active stretch for bolides across North America, making a meteor or military supersonic flight the most plausible explanations.