CaseFireball2001
Romney, WV, USA
WE ARE WALKING TOWARDS MY HOUSE (ME AND MY FRIEND) AND A BIG ORANGE FIRE BALL JUST SITTING THERE IN THE SKY......WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-13
- Where
- Romney, WV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.342, -78.757 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-romney-wv-2001-bc50e6
In context
- Romney, WV has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 23 reports from West Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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