CaseFireball2001
Columbia, SC, USA
I saw a flaming object falling from the sky at a tremendous rate of speed.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-03
- Where
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.001, -81.035 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbia-sc-2001-ffe374
In context
- Columbia, SC has 66 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 22 reports from South Carolina.
- 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.