CaseFireball2002
Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
Orange glow along the horizon
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-22
- Where
- Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 28.321, -80.609 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cocoa-beach-fl-2002-960001
In context
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Cocoa Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 154 Florida reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s 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.