CaseFireball2000

Olive Branch (Desoto City) (5 mi. S of Memphis), MS, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Olive Branch (Desoto City) (5 mi. S of Memphis), MS, USA
Start: 2000-03-09
Location: Olive Branch (Desoto City) (5 mi. S of Memphis), MS, USA

I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK WHEN I WITNESSED AN ORANGE/RED FIREBALL WITH A REAL BRIGHT WHITE SILVERY LIGHT PERTRUDING OUT THE FRONT/TOP THA

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: 4s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2000-03-09
Where: Olive Branch (Desoto City) (5 mi. S of Memphis), MS, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 4-5 SECONDS
Geo: 34.962, -89.830 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-olive-branch-desoto-city-5-mi-s-of-memphis-ms-2000-ff863a

In context

Olive Branch (Desoto City) (5 mi. S of Memphis), MS shows up 1 times across the archive.
16 reports came from Mississippi in 2000.
In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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