CaseFireball2001
Beloit, WI, USA
A yellow fireball diving straight down stops for a few seconds, changes color, then goes straight down again.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-28
- Where
- Beloit, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.508, -89.032 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-beloit-wi-2001-2c3766
In context
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Beloit, WI.
- This case is one of 84 Wisconsin reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.