CaseFireball2000
Erie, PA, USA
A fireball was visible in the northeastern sky early Sunday morning in Erie, PA.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-03
- Where
- Erie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.129, -80.085 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-erie-pa-2000-503922
In context
- Erie, PA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 74 reports from Pennsylvania.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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