CaseFireball2001
Durham, NC, USA
aprox. 8:40 EST, white flame shape heading fast for ground, turned 90 degree then looked like short white line
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-21
- Where
- Durham, NC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 min. (my portion)
- Geo
- 35.994, -78.899 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-durham-nc-2001-2fd30c
In context
- Durham, NC shows up 65 times across the archive.
- 63 reports came from North Carolina in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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