UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Nuriootpa (Australia), Australia

Fireball inclour size approximately 500 yards across, landed and vertically lifted out of sight

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-10-06
Where
Nuriootpa (Australia), Australia
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
-34.468, 138.998 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-nuriootpa-australia-1978-ea49b6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Nuriootpa (Australia), Australia shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Australia in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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