CaseFireball2002
Norton Shores, MI, USA
A brightly lighted round aircraft, traveling at a fairly slow speed and a low altitude toward Lake Michigan, clearly seen.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-11
- Where
- Norton Shores, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 43.169, -86.264 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-norton-shores-mi-2002-c5ef64
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Norton Shores, MI.
- This case is one of 84 Michigan reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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