CaseFireball2003
Jacksonville, FL, USA
It appeared to be a very bright and large shooting star falling downwards with a trail
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-10-20
- Where
- Jacksonville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 30.332, -81.656 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-jacksonville-fl-2003-9fea35
In context
- Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
- 206 reports came from Florida in 2003.
- 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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