CaseFireball1978

Bhandara (near Nagpur) (India), India

Orange Ball at Northern Sky moving from West to East for a minute

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 (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Bhandara (near Nagpur) (India), India
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
21.168, 79.649 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bhandara-near-nagpur-india-1978-5ecac3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Bhandara (near Nagpur) (India), India.
  • This case is one of 3 India reports filed in 1978.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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