CaseFireball2000
Negombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka
Bright red lights, almost like a flare
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-10-28
- Where
- Negombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30
- Geo
- 7.208, 79.836 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-negombo-sri-lanka-2000-329516
In context
- Negombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Sri Lanka in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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