CaseFireball1981
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
An orange fireball above our backyard
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-05-09
- Where
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 33.509, -111.899 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-scottsdale-az-1981-3d7ecd
In context
- Scottsdale, AZ shows up 172 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Arizona in 1981.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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