CaseFireball2000
Columbus, OH, USA
Yesterday, 1/20/00 at exactly 6:00p.m., I observed a "green meteor"? falling from north to south in Columbus, Ohio. My wife and son an
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-01-20
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbus-oh-2000-0243e3
In context
- Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 80 reports from Ohio.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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