CaseFireball2001
Fort Pierce, FL, USA
A bright light that was heading towards the ground and just disappeared
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-17
- Where
- Fort Pierce, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 27.447, -80.326 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fort-pierce-fl-2001-747389
In context
- Fort Pierce, FL shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Florida in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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