CaseFireball2016
Newtown, CT, USA
Saw a bright white burning object falling from sky to the ground from my car as I was travelling east on 84 it was "crashing."
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-03
- Where
- Newtown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 41.414, -73.303 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newtown-ct-2016-acc990
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In context
- Newtown, CT has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 75 reports from Connecticut.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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