CaseFireball2001
Blackpool, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
Single light source definately not aircraft (I worked with aircraft for 8 years) extreme speed west to east faded rather than go out of
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-02-17
- Where
- Blackpool, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 53.817, -3.050 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-blackpool-lancashire-uk-england-2001-ea1e49
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Blackpool, Lancashire (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 145 United Kingdom reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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