CaseFireball2002
Poland, ME, USA
an orange light that slowly dropped and flickered out.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-20
- Where
- Poland, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.061, -70.394 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-poland-me-2002-78aa06
In context
- Poland, ME shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Maine in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.