CaseFireball2002
Barton City, MI, USA
Multiple silent orange lights flashing on and off, then going all out after a few minutes, followed by sound of jets but none visible.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-17
- Where
- Barton City, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- about 3 minutes
- Geo
- 44.684, -83.606 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-barton-city-mi-2002-e9aa3d
In context
- Barton City, MI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 84 reports came from Michigan in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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