CaseFireball2001
Silesia, MT, USA
I saw on the west horizon what looked like a huge falling star travelling from the north to the south and disappearing behind the west
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Silesia, MT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 45.557, -108.842 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-silesia-mt-2001-deb765
In context
- Silesia, MT shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Montana in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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