CaseFireball2000
Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Shot across the sky. Started orange then turned to a greenish color.Then it disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-09
- Where
- Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.303, -77.461 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fredericksburg-va-2000-835c58
In context
- Fredericksburg, VA has 55 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 26 reports from Virginia.
- 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.