CaseFireball2003
Fairfax, VA, USA
1 fireball going east just above tree level very bright and orange burned out in 4 sec. no sounds
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-29
- Where
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4sec
- Geo
- 38.846, -77.306 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fairfax-va-2003-7cbbbb
In context
- Fairfax, VA shows up 50 times across the archive.
- 67 reports came from Virginia in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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