CaseFireball2000
Hopewell, VA, USA
Two witnesses saw a huge neon-green fireball travelling parallel to the ground, behind treetops, near Richmond VA on I-295
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 (122 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-c19b53
In context
- Hopewell, VA shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Virginia in 2000.
- 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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