CaseFireball2001
Alexandria, VA, USA
Ball of light moves over heads of people in traffic - appears to head toward the ground but no sign of crash evident.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-11-07
- Where
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.805, -77.047 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-alexandria-va-2001-3e4714
In context
- Alexandria, VA has 112 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 63 reports from Virginia.
- 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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