CaseFireball1974
Woodlawn, VA, USA
Meteor or Otherwise? Blue Fireball Impacted SouthWestern Virginia Valentines Day 1974
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-02-14
- Where
- Woodlawn, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 38.717, -77.133 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-woodlawn-va-1974-1ac4a0
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Woodlawn, VA.
- This case is one of 5 Virginia reports filed in 1974.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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