CaseFireball2001
Portland, OR, USA
Immediately following a very loud, sharp explosion there was a large burst of flame in the sky, followed by dark smoke. of
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-28
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- about 3 min.
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2001-10ee79
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 115 reports came from Oregon in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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