CaseFireball1981
Hawthorne, NV, USA
Green ball of light flying parallel to school bus.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-01-15
- Where
- Hawthorne, NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.525, -118.625 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hawthorne-nv-1981-10eef1
In context
- Hawthorne, NV has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1981 brought 5 reports from Nevada.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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