CaseFireball2016
North Canton, OH, USA
((HOAX??)) Sound very loud like an engine, shook windows of home. Fireball could be seen in the W sky for @5 min..
Report quality: Low21/100
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- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-01-21
- Where
- North Canton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-6 minutes
- Geo
- 40.876, -81.402 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-canton-oh-2016-789036
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In context
- North Canton, OH has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 156 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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