CaseFireball2001
Reno, NV, USA
Large fireball spotted over Nevada
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-28
- Where
- Reno, NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 39.530, -119.814 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-reno-nv-2001-e68a9e
In context
- Reno, NV has 189 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 50 reports from Nevada.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.