CaseFireball1953
Vicksburg, AL, USA
Looked like a large meteorite ablaze
Report quality: Moderate40/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-06-25
- Where
- Vicksburg, AL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 32.353, -90.878 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-vicksburg-al-1953-c0e51b
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Vicksburg, AL.
- This case is one of 1 Alabama reports filed in 1953.
- Fireball craft made up 3.9% of 1950s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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