CaseFireball2000
Eureka Springs, AR, USA
driving sw saw diffuse (sheet not bolt) lightning (clear sky) then looked to left (east) and saw rather large fireball meteor breaking
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-09
- Where
- Eureka Springs, AR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.401, -93.738 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-eureka-springs-ar-2000-e52c94
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Eureka Springs, AR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arkansas logged 41 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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