CaseFireball2002
Jacksonville, FL, USA
A FIREBALL SIGHTING FROM THE SKY LOOKED LIKE A UFO
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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)
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-29
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 SECONDS
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-jacksonville-fl-2002-090024
In context
- Jacksonville, FL has 256 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 154 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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