CaseFireball2001
Smiths Ferry, ID, USA
fireball was blue green in color moving approximately nnw to ssw seemingly horizontal and either flamed out or went behing tree line
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-15
- Where
- Smiths Ferry, ID, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 44.301, -116.090 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-smiths-ferry-id-2001-2d7122
In context
- Smiths Ferry, ID has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 27 reports from Idaho.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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