CaseFireball2001
Richardson, TX, USA
This encounter consisted of a brief sighting of several fireballs and related streaks seemingly flying in formation.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-12-01
- Where
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- 32.948, -96.730 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-richardson-tx-2001-b69904
In context
- Richardson, TX has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 140 reports from Texas.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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