CaseFireball2001
New Port Richey, FL, USA
Red-orange fireball,fell strait down.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-15
- Where
- New Port Richey, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 28.244, -82.719 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-port-richey-fl-2001-226667
In context
- New Port Richey, FL shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 145 reports came from Florida in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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