CaseFireball2000
Elko, NV, USA
STOP FOR THE NIGHT TO SLEEP IN VAN. THEN NOTICE FIREBALLS FLYING ALL AROUND WITHIN 100 YARDS OF VAN. WATCHED THEM UNTIL DAYLIGHT.
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: 21600s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-20
- Where
- Elko, NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Geo
- 40.832, -115.763 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elko-nv-2000-56a6bd
In context
- This is one of 23 reports logged in Elko, NV.
- This case is one of 40 Nevada reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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