CaseFireball2001
Arlington, TX, USA
Bright orange ball that seemed to crash to the ground, making a loud, sharp noise; the whole dark sky lit up in a deep blue color.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-10
- Where
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 32.736, -97.108 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-arlington-tx-2001-ad79a8
In context
- Arlington, TX has 80 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.