CaseFireball2000
Newton, KS, USA
These objects appeared to be meteorites of a very large magnitude.
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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-10-13
- Where
- Newton, KS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 60-90 seconds
- Geo
- 38.047, -97.345 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newton-ks-2000-05e605
In context
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Newton, KS.
- This case is one of 27 Kansas reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.