Esfehan (Iran), Iran
Strange pulsating bright lite in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2020-05-01
- Where
- Esfehan (Iran), Iran
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 32.652, 51.675 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-esfehan-iran-2020-ba89e8
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Esfehan (Iran), Iran.
- This case is one of 1 Iran reports filed in 2020.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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