CaseFireball2000
Bradenton, FL, USA
Waiting for the lunar eclipse at Bishop planetarium,I noticed it in the sky due east and didn`'t realize it wasn't a plane at first.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-01-20
- Where
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- app. 1 min.
- Geo
- 27.499, -82.575 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bradenton-fl-2000-7c484f
In context
- One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 120 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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