CaseFireball2000
Russia (Over), Russia
I saw a gigantic orange ball inside clouds in the dead of night when I was flying to Japan over Russia.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-05-11
- Where
- Russia (Over), Russia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.234, -84.409 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-russia-over-2000-8b358a
In context
- Russia (Over), Russia shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Russia in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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