CaseFireball2001
Howell, MI, USA
At 7:39 pm Tuesday, October 2, I was driving east on Clyde Rd., which is a dirt road 4 miles north of Howell, MI. I was 1 mile west of
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-02
- Where
- Howell, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.607, -83.929 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-howell-mi-2001-8b2a8f
In context
- Howell, MI shows up 24 times across the archive.
- 79 reports came from Michigan in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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