CaseFireball1981
Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Small cloud with energy ball of lightning (like the sun) inside. And the other side 3 spinning orbs.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-06-01
- Where
- Ottawa (Canada), ON, Canada
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5MIN
- Geo
- 45.411, -75.698 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ottawa-canada-on-1981-5d9353
In context
- Ottawa (Canada), Canada shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from Canada in 1981.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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