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
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.