CaseFireball2001
Aurora, CO, USA
Orange fireball like seen in Aurora north of Buckley AFB at 0300.Duration of 10 minutes,Then dissappears.Recorded on camera!
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-17
- Where
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10MINUTES
- Geo
- 39.729, -104.832 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-aurora-co-2001-069f16
In context
- Aurora, CO shows up 105 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Colorado in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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