Rowesville, SC, USA
FIREBALL TRAVELING NE TO SW .ORANGE WITH RED AND GREEN AND GREY SMOKE TRAIL. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-01-08
- Where
- Rowesville, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 SEC
- Geo
- 33.370, -80.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rowesville-sc-2007-61c7b4
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Rowesville, SC.
- This case is one of 78 South Carolina reports filed in 2007.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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