CaseFireball2001
Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa
While walking through the bushes and keeping an eye out for lions we saw a number of fiery objects flw slowly through the sky not far f
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-22
- Where
- Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- -33.926, 18.423 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cape-town-south-africa-2001-de5be3
In context
- Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from South Africa in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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