CaseFireball2000
Smyrna, TN, USA
A large, spherical object slowly descended through the sky in a diagonal until it disappeared behind the tree line. It glowed in a bri
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-09
- Where
- Smyrna, TN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 or 4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.983, -86.519 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-smyrna-tn-2000-1f13d9
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Smyrna, TN.
- This case is one of 40 Tennessee reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.