North Carolina driver says bald eagle dropped cat through her windshield: 'You may not believe me'

A operator successful North Carolina told a dispatcher that a feline carcass crashed into her windshield on a road aft the feline was dropped from the entity by a bald eagle.

The pistillate called 911 connected Wednesday greeting to study the incident, saying that a bald eagle dropped the feline into the rider broadside of her beforehand windshield connected U.S. Route 74 successful Swain County, adjacent Bryson City, which is located astir 65 miles southwest of Asheville.

It is unclear if the feline slipped from the eagle's talons oregon was dropped intentionally.

"You whitethorn not judge me, but I conscionable had a bald eagle driblet a feline done my windshield," the operator said connected the 911 call. "It perfectly shattered my windshield."

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A smashed windshield aft a feline carcass crashed into the car on a road adjacent the Great Smoky Mountains National Park successful North Carolina connected Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (AP)

The dispatcher calmly responded, "Okay. I bash judge you, honestly," earlier laughing.

The operator said different idiosyncratic besides observed the feline dropping from the sky.

"He's like, 'That is the craziest happening I’ve ever seen.' I'm like, 'Really?'" the operator said.

The dispatcher replied, "Oh my goodness. Let's see. I've heard crazier."

"Well, that's terrifying," the caller responded, prompting much tense laughter from the dispatcher.

After receiving the driver's location, the dispatcher said she would nonstop the Highway Patrol to behaviour a report.

It is unclear if the feline slipped from the eagle's talons oregon was dropped intentionally. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"Another question. Is the feline inactive alive?" the dispatcher asked.

The feline was not alive, and the caller said the feline was connected the broadside of the roadworthy alternatively than wrong her vehicle.

"Okay, I person to inquire conscionable to marque sure," the dispatcher said.

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission's Kendrick Weeks said the feline could person been roadkill grabbed by the eagle.

"But they tin instrumentality animals the size of a cat," helium said. "It is overmuch harder for them to instrumentality a unrecorded feline than a dormant cat. They usually don’t prey connected thing they don’t find palatable. And, scavenging is simply a communal behaviour successful bald eagles."

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"I bash judge you, honestly," the dispatcher told the driver. ((Photo by: Valerio Ferraro/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))

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Weeks said eagles and different raptors tin driblet prey for respective reasons, including owed to a mediocre grip oregon if the prey is biting oregon different struggling and the birds are wanting to forestall wounded to themselves.

Prey tin besides beryllium dropped if a raptor is being harassed by different vertebrate oregon if the prey becomes excessively dense to carry.

Some raptors whitethorn besides driblet prey to termination it, but that maneuver is uncommon for bald eagles.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.