CaseFireball2000
Hopewell, VA, USA
Large neon-green fireball, travelling parallel to I-295 (south) at 200 mph and parallel to ground, behind treetops, near Hopewell, VA
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-31
- Where
- Hopewell, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 secs
- Geo
- 37.304, -77.287 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hopewell-va-2000-4981a5
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Hopewell, VA.
- This case is one of 26 Virginia reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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