CaseFireball1972
Powell, WY, USA
My 2 young sons ages 7 and 9 were sleeping outside in the front yard. We lived in the country in Powell, Wyoming, Park County. We had
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-05
- Where
- Powell, WY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 44.754, -108.757 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-powell-wy-1972-72a4c4
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Powell, WY.
- This case is one of 1 Wyoming reports filed in 1972.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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