CaseFireball2005
Roanoke, VA, USA
Brilliant object fades then arches across sky and disappers.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-27
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-roanoke-va-2005-8c3ebb
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In context
- Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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