CaseFireball1983
Colesburg (Cape Provence) (South Africa), South Africa
In late April 1983 a friend and I were travelling from Cape Town to Johannesburg.In the early hours of the morning we were in the Karoo
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-04-20
- Where
- Colesburg (Cape Provence) (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 42.639, -91.202 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-colesburg-cape-provence-south-africa-1983-6d0407
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In context
- Colesburg (Cape Provence) (South Africa), South Africa has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1983 brought 1 reports from South Africa.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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