CaseFireball2001
Las Vegas, NM, USA
Green fireball, falling from 15 to 20 degrees above the horizon in a straight line to the horizon from my view, leaving a trail.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Las Vegas, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.594, -105.224 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-vegas-nm-2001-497086
In context
- Las Vegas, NM has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 29 reports from New Mexico.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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