CaseFireball1983
Jackson, MI, USA
This happened around MAY Of 1983. It was around 9:30 PM. Me my sister and two neighbor kids were out in the yard playing when one of us
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983-05-10
- Where
- Jackson, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.246, -84.401 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-jackson-mi-1983-1e37a4
In context
- Jackson, MI shows up 34 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from Michigan in 1983.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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