CaseFireball2000
Avon Park (N of, to as far S of L. Placid), FL, USA
Driving east towards avon park on hwy 98 look up in the sky and saw a burnt-orange fireball. It would fade out and and glow back in ano
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-02-08
- Where
- Avon Park (N of, to as far S of L. Placid), FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 27.596, -81.506 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-avon-park-n-of-to-as-far-s-of-l-placid-fl-2000-60a0cd
In context
- Avon Park (N of, to as far S of L. Placid), FL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 120 reports from Florida.
- 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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