CaseFireball2001
Austin, TX, USA
Firework like flash looking like one lighted point hitting another and creating short spark shower, then dissapears.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-30
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 sec
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-2001-d75aa8
In context
- Austin, TX shows up 327 times across the archive.
- 140 reports came from Texas in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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