CaseFireball2000
Starkville, MS, USA
I thought, I was about to see a shooting star, when a lime green ball of light erupted and trailed downward for over 30 sec.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-08-09
- Where
- Starkville, MS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20-40 seconds
- Geo
- 33.450, -88.820 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-starkville-ms-2000-686ded
In context
- Starkville, MS shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from Mississippi in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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