CaseFireball2001
Newton, TX, USA
Bright object appeared to be burning up in atmosphere as in re-entry.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-01
- Where
- Newton, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 30.849, -93.757 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newton-tx-2001-6169fd
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Newton, TX.
- This case is one of 140 Texas reports filed in 2001.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.