CaseFireball2001
Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
fast moving orange luminus balls of light
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-15
- Where
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 mins
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-melbourne-vic-australia-2001-222de8
In context
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia has 48 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 48 reports from Australia.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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