CaseFireball1982
Hobart (Australia), Australia
30+ orange balls playing in Australia
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1982-03-16
- Where
- Hobart (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- -42.879, 147.329 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hobart-australia-1982-061169
In context
- Hobart (Australia), Australia shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Australia in 1982.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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