CaseFireball2001
Helena, AL, USA
Eight adults witness fast-moving bright object fly across the sky
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-06-23
- Where
- Helena, AL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.296, -86.844 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-helena-al-2001-b98de8
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Helena, AL.
- This case is one of 14 Alabama reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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