CaseFireball1975

Columbia, MS, USA

Small stationary light grew brighter as if nearing Earth for two hours, began moving south slowly over approximately one hour, then spe

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1975
Where
Columbia, MS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 hours
Geo
31.252, -89.838 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-columbia-ms-1975-dd7efd

In context

  • Columbia, MS shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Mississippi in 1975.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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