CaseFireball2002
Brookston, IN, USA
Orange balls appeared out of no where and then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-15
- Where
- Brookston, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.603, -86.867 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-brookston-in-2002-353f9e
In context
- Brookston, IN has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 47 reports from Indiana.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.