CaseFireball2001
Latrobe, PA, USA
flaming metalic ball which tail got longer
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 (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-23
- Where
- Latrobe, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 40.321, -79.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-latrobe-pa-2001-eaa44e
In context
- Latrobe, PA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 78 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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