CaseFireball2001
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Delta 434 reported flaming falling object which left a visible contrail.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-23
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15-20 Mins ?
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-washington-d-c-dc-2001-722411
In context
- One of 109 documented reports from Washington, D.C., DC in the UFOMYST archive.
- District of Columbia logged 6 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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