CaseFireball2001
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
On the eve of 7/29/01 I witnessed a huge fireball fly accross the sky while driving So. on a Ft, Lauderdale Florida road.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-29
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2001-eaf482
In context
- This is one of 94 reports logged in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
- This case is one of 145 Florida reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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