CaseFireball2001
Winterset, IA, USA
look like a crashing ship
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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)
- Brief witness text (25 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-27
- Where
- Winterset, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.331, -94.014 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-winterset-ia-2001-9ebaf1
In context
- Winterset, IA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 30 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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