CaseFireball2002

Battle Creek, MI, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Battle Creek, MI, USA
Start: 2002-08-10
Location: Battle Creek, MI, USA

Bright Green Fire Ball with long tail falling from the sky

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
Brief witness text (58 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-08-10
Where: Battle Creek, MI, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 4 seconds
Geo: 42.317, -85.178 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-battle-creek-mi-2002-525eb0

In context

This is one of 25 reports logged in Battle Creek, MI.
This case is one of 84 Michigan reports filed in 2002.
Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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