CaseFireball2001
Ellicott City, MD, USA
A green fireball going parllel to the horizon at about 20 degrees. It then seemed to burnout. I immediately thought of it as just a sho
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-29
- Where
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.267, -76.798 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ellicott-city-md-2001-b63ec9
In context
- Ellicott City, MD has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 37 reports from Maryland.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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