CaseFireball2002
Laplata, MD, USA
It was a glowing ball that shot across the sky and left a trail of light behind it moving very fast.
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 (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-13
- Where
- Laplata, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 38.529, -76.975 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-laplata-md-2002-aedee8
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Laplata, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 52 sightings in 2002.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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