CaseFireball2002
Indianapolis, IN, USA
We saw a strange orange fireball four times across the night sky.
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 (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-10
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-indianapolis-in-2002-d9bc9a
In context
- This is one of 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
- This case is one of 47 Indiana reports filed in 2002.
- 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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