CaseFireball2003
Portsmouth, RI, USA
Vary large glowing object with a red blinking light beneath the bright round yellow/orange glowing light
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-03-16
- Where
- Portsmouth, RI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- five minutes
- Geo
- 41.602, -71.250 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portsmouth-ri-2003-aa4562
In context
- Portsmouth, RI shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Rhode Island in 2003.
- 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.