CaseFireball2001
Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom
18:01 13/01/01 ORANGE FIREBALL PLUNGED DIRECTLY TO EARTH N.EAST ROTHER VALLEY PARK, AIRCRAFT NEARBY BUT MOVING AWAY SHEFFIELD ENGLAND.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-13
- Where
- Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 53.383, -1.466 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sheffield-uk-england-2001-45afb7
In context
- One of 23 documented reports from Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 145 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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