Canton, GA, USA
Green fireball seen early morning in Cherokee County.((NUFORC Note: Possibly a long-duration meteor; green possibly from copper. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-03-24
- Where
- Canton, GA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 34.237, -84.491 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-canton-ga-2012-e3588f
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Canton, GA.
- This case is one of 126 Georgia reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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