CaseFireball2000

Corvallis, OR, USA

A bright spherical object moved across the sky in daylight, then appeared to split into multiple bright lights.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2000-12-05
Where
Corvallis, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
44.565, -123.262 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-corvallis-or-2000-6a2600

In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Corvallis, OR.
  • This case is one of 100 Oregon reports filed in 2000.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.